latest hammer price
Auction lots
52
Houses
1
Last sold
144 days ago
Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora aged 30 years. Based on 52 recorded auction lots across 25 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,025, with the most recent sale at £1,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £350 (low) to £2,000 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release is £840–£1,960 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release is up 36.6%, with a 6-month trend of -6.7% (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.
Brora is a whisky distillery. Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 2005.
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 (2005), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-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.
Latest sale
£1,400
24-month median
£1,025
24-month high
£2,000
24-month low
£350
Estimated value · likely range
£840–£1,960 ±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
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 22% of tracked bottles
Last seen
144 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £1,400 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £1,500 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £1,700 | 2 |
| April 2023 | £1,900 | 2 |
| December 2021 | £2,000 | 2 |
| December 2020 | £1,500 | 2 |
| September 2020 | £1,500 | 2 |
| September 2019 | £1,500 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £1,200 | 3 |
| July 2019 | £1,300 | 2 |
| May 2019 | £1,500 | 2 |
| March 2019 | £1,400 | 2 |
Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release 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 puts it in the top 22% 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 30 Year Old 2005 Release at auction is £1,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,025, with a high of £2,000 and a low of £350. 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.
Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release is up 36.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 6.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release 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 £1,025 (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 Brora 30 Year Old 2005 Release has moved up 36.6%, with a current median hammer price of £1,025. The bottle has been observed at auction across 52 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 £1,400, 24-month median £1,025 — 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 30 Year Old 2005 Release that hammers at £1,400 would cost the buyer approximately £1,764 all-in including buyer's premium.
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