latest hammer price
Auction lots
10
Houses
1
Last sold
39 days ago
Bowmore - Darkest is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 10 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £205, with the most recent sale at £170. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £170 (low) to £240 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore - Darkest is £155–£185 (±9% around the latest sale).
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore - Darkest is a no-age-statement bottling.
Named / limited release
Released as darkest, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
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.
Latest sale
£170
24-month median
£205
24-month high
£240
24-month low
£170
Estimated value · likely range
£155–£185 ±9%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
39 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £170 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £200 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £180 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £190 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £210 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £240 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £230 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £230 | 1 |
| September 2021 | £220 | 1 |
| August 2021 | £200 | 1 |
More from Bowmore
Bowmore - Darkest appeared in 3 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 28% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bowmore - Darkest at auction is £170. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £205, with a high of £240 and a low of £170. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Bowmore - Darkest, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £170 to £240 (median £205).
Bowmore - Darkest 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 £205 (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%.
Bowmore - Darkest has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £205. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £170, 24-month median £205 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding 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 - Darkest that hammers at £170 would cost the buyer approximately £214 all-in including buyer's premium.
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