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Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice

£1,000
72.4%vs 12 months ago

latest hammer price

Rare at auction· 3 lots a year

Auction lots

43

Houses

1

Last sold

54 days ago

Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora. Based on 43 recorded auction lots across 20 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £888, with the most recent sale at £1,000. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £580 (low) to £1,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice is £896–£1,104 10% around the latest sale).

Year-on-year, Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice is up 72.4%, with a 6-month trend of +17.6% (up). 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.

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About Brora

Brora is a whisky distillery. Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1972.

What drives this bottle's value

  • Closed / ghost distillery

    Brora was silent from 1983 until its 2021 revival, so whisky from the original distillery is finite and keenly collected.

  • Single vintage

    Distilled in a single year (1972), so the available batch is inherently finite.

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
Brora
Vintage
1972
Bottle size
700ml

Latest sale

£1,000

24-month median

£888

24-month high

£1,500

24-month low

£580

Estimated value · likely range

£896–£1,104 ±10%

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

3 lots

Cadence

≈ every 122 days

Trend

25% vs prior year

Houses

1

Activity rank

top 28% of tracked bottles

Last seen

54 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

17.6%vs 6 months ago
72.4%vs 12 months ago

Price history (monthly median)

£563£1,054£1,545Nov 16Sept 17Jul 18Sept 22Nov 25

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
July 2026£1,0001
November 2025£1,1002
January 2025£1,5002
December 2024£8002
September 2022£1,4002
September 2020£7754
November 2019£8502
October 2019£1,0502
August 2019£1,0002
July 2019£9502
March 2019£9002
December 2018£8754

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice at auction?

Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice 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 is down 25% on the previous 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.

What is the current auction price of Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice?

The latest hammer price for Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice at auction is £1,000. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £888, with a high of £1,500 and a low of £580. 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 Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice changed in value over the past year?

Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice is up 72.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 17.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.

Where can I sell Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice?

Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice 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 £888 (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 Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice a good investment?

Over the past 12 months Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice has moved up 72.4%, with a current median hammer price of £888. The bottle has been observed at auction across 43 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.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice?

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 £1,000, 24-month median £888 — 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 Brora 1972 Connoisseurs Choice that hammers at £1,000 would cost the buyer approximately £1,260 all-in including buyer's premium.

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