latest hammer price
Auction lots
18
Houses
1
Last sold
2 days ago
Brora 34 Year Old 2017 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora aged 34 years, bottled in 2017. Based on 18 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,400, with the most recent sale at £1,300. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £850 (low) to £2,100 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora 34 Year Old 2017 Release is £1,016–£1,584 (±22% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Brora 34 Year Old 2017 Release is up 52.9%, with a 6-month trend of -27.8% (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 34 Year Old 2017 Release is an age-stated bottling at 34 years old, released in 2017.
Closed / ghost distillery
Brora was silent from 1983 until its 2021 revival, so whisky from the original distillery is finite and keenly collected.
Considerable age
A 34-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Brora 34 Year Old 2017 Release, 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.
Latest sale
£1,300
24-month median
£1,400
24-month high
£2,100
24-month low
£850
Estimated value · likely range
£1,016–£1,584 ±22%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 95% of tracked bottles
Last seen
2 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £1,300 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £1,600 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £1,500 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £1,700 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £1,750 | 2 |
| December 2022 | £2,100 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £1,800 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £1,600 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £1,800 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £1,200 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £1,100 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £1,150 | 1 |
Brora 34 Year Old 2017 Release appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 95% by auction activity among the 31,027 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Brora 34 Year Old 2017 Release at auction is £1,300. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,400, with a high of £2,100 and a low of £850. 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 34 Year Old 2017 Release is up 52.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 27.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Brora 34 Year Old 2017 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 £1,400 (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 34 Year Old 2017 Release has moved up 52.9%, with a current median hammer price of £1,400. The bottle has been observed at auction across 18 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 £1,300, 24-month median £1,400 — 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 34 Year Old 2017 Release that hammers at £1,300 would cost the buyer approximately £1,638 all-in including buyer's premium.
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