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Bowmore 40 Year Old

£3,200

latest hammer price

Rare at auction· 2 lots a year

Auction lots

2

Houses

1

Last sold

80 days ago

Bowmore 40 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 40 years. Based on 2 recorded auction lots across 2 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,350, with the most recent sale at £3,200. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £3,200 (low) to £3,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 40 Year Old is £2,944–£3,456 8% around the latest sale).

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About Bowmore

Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 40 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old.

What drives this bottle's value

  • Considerable age

    A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.

These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Bowmore
Expression
40 Year Old
Age
40 years
Bottle size
700ml

Latest sale

£3,200

24-month median

£3,350

24-month high

£3,500

24-month low

£3,200

Estimated value · likely range

£2,944–£3,456 ±8%

Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.

Market presence

last 12 months

Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year

Seen at auction

2 lots

Cadence

≈ every 183 days

Houses

1

Activity rank

top 39% of tracked bottles

Last seen

80 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

Price history (monthly median)

£3,104£3,355£3,605May 26Jun 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
June 2026£3,2001
May 2026£3,5001

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Bowmore 40 Year Old at auction?

Bowmore 40 Year Old appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 39% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of Bowmore 40 Year Old?

The latest hammer price for Bowmore 40 Year Old at auction is £3,200. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,350, with a high of £3,500 and a low of £3,200. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.

How much has Bowmore 40 Year Old changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Bowmore 40 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £3,200 to £3,500 (median £3,350).

Where can I sell Bowmore 40 Year Old?

Bowmore 40 Year Old regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £3,350 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.

Is Bowmore 40 Year Old a good investment?

Bowmore 40 Year Old has appeared in 2 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £3,350. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Bowmore 40 Year Old?

wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £3,200, 24-month median £3,350 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include buyer's premium?

No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of Bowmore 40 Year Old that hammers at £3,200 would cost the buyer approximately £4,032 all-in including buyer's premium.

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