latest hammer price
Auction lots
3
Houses
1
Last sold
39 days ago
Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) Connoisseurs Choice is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora. Based on 3 recorded auction lots across 3 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,000, with the most recent sale at £960. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £960 (low) to £1,275 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) Connoisseurs Choice is £809–£1,111 (±16% around the latest sale).
Brora is a whisky distillery. Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) Connoisseurs Choice is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1972.
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.
Named / limited release
Released as choiceconnoisseurs, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
Independent bottling
An independent bottling by gordonmacphail, typically produced in far smaller numbers than an official distillery release.
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
£960
24-month median
£1,000
24-month high
£1,275
24-month low
£960
Estimated value · likely range
£809–£1,111 ±16%
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 | £960 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £1,275 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £1,000 | 1 |
Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) 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 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 Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) Connoisseurs Choice at auction is £960. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,000, with a high of £1,275 and a low of £960. 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 Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) Connoisseurs Choice, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £960 to £1,275 (median £1,000).
Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) 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 £1,000 (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%.
Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) Connoisseurs Choice has appeared in 3 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,000. 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 £960, 24-month median £1,000 — 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 Brora - 1972 (Gordon & MacPhail) Connoisseurs Choice that hammers at £960 would cost the buyer approximately £1,210 all-in including buyer's premium.
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