latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
99
Houses
2
Last sold
25 days ago
Bowmore - Darkest is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore. Based on 99 recorded auction lots across 63 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £110, with the most recent sale at £220. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £35 (low) to £320 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore - Darkest is £132–£308 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore - Darkest is down 4.3%, with a 6-month trend of -4.3% (down). wsky1 aggregates hammer prices from major public Scotch whisky auctions including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium (typically 24–28% additional at major houses). Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
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.
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Latest sale
£220
24-month median
£110
24-month high
£320
24-month low
£35
Estimated value · likely range
£132–£308 ±40%
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
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Trend
▼ 20% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 19% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£125
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 63 | £220 | £110 |
| Whisky Hammer | 10 | £170 | £205 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £220 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £200 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £220 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £240 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £260 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £230 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £230 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £65 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £270 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £250 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £90 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £320 | 1 |
More from Bowmore
Bowmore - Darkest appeared in 4 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 20% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 19% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bowmore - Darkest at auction is £220. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £110, with a high of £320 and a low of £35. 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.
Bowmore - Darkest is down 4.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 4.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
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 £110 (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%.
Over the past 12 months Bowmore - Darkest has moved down 4.3%, with a current median hammer price of £110. The bottle has been observed at auction across 99 recorded lots in our database. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice. Whisky is an illiquid alternative asset; secondary-market value depends heavily on bottle condition, fill level, label integrity, and timing.
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 £220, 24-month median £110 — 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 £220 would cost the buyer approximately £277 all-in including buyer's premium.
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