latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
158
Houses
2
Last sold
40 days ago
Brora 30 Year Old 2009 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora aged 30 years. Based on 158 recorded auction lots across 65 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £820, with the most recent sale at £980. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £250 (low) to £1,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora 30 Year Old 2009 Release is £741–£1,219 (±24% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Brora 30 Year Old 2009 Release is down 14.8%, with a 6-month trend of -24.6% (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 2009 Release is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 2009.
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 (2009), 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.
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Latest sale
£980
24-month median
£820
24-month high
£1,500
24-month low
£250
Estimated value · likely range
£741–£1,219 ±24%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
8 lots
Cadence
≈ every 46 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 11% of tracked bottles
Last seen
40 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£810
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 | 115 | £1,050 | £800 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £980 | £980 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £980 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £1,050 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £1,100 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £1,150 | 4 |
| June 2025 | £1,300 | 2 |
| August 2024 | £1,200 | 2 |
| March 2024 | £1,300 | 2 |
| October 2023 | £1,450 | 4 |
| August 2023 | £1,350 | 4 |
| November 2021 | £1,500 | 2 |
| May 2021 | £1,263 | 8 |
| March 2021 | £1,200 | 2 |
Brora 30 Year Old 2009 Release appeared in 8 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 11% 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 2009 Release at auction is £980. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £820, with a high of £1,500 and a low of £250. 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 2009 Release is down 14.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 24.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Brora 30 Year Old 2009 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 £820 (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 2009 Release has moved down 14.8%, with a current median hammer price of £820. The bottle has been observed at auction across 158 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 £980, 24-month median £820 — 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 2009 Release that hammers at £980 would cost the buyer approximately £1,235 all-in including buyer's premium.
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