latest hammer price
Auction lots
104
Houses
1
Last sold
43 days ago
Brora 38 Year Old 2016 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora aged 38 years. Based on 104 recorded auction lots across 44 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,700, with the most recent sale at £1,700. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,150 (low) to £2,550 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora 38 Year Old 2016 Release is £1,438–£1,963 (±15% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Brora 38 Year Old 2016 Release is down 10.5%, with a 6-month trend of -5.6% (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 38 Year Old 2016 Release is an age-stated bottling at 38 years old, distilled in 2016.
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 (2016), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 38-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
£1,700
24-month median
£1,700
24-month high
£2,550
24-month low
£1,150
Estimated value · likely range
£1,438–£1,963 ±15%
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
6 lots
Cadence
≈ every 61 days
Trend
▼ 40% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 14% of tracked bottles
Last seen
43 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £1,700 | 2 |
| April 2026 | £1,900 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £1,700 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £1,900 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £2,000 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £1,600 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £1,800 | 2 |
| September 2024 | £1,900 | 2 |
| August 2024 | £2,000 | 2 |
| May 2024 | £1,800 | 4 |
| April 2024 | £1,900 | 2 |
| March 2024 | £1,900 | 4 |
Brora 38 Year Old 2016 Release appeared in 6 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 40% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 14% 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 38 Year Old 2016 Release at auction is £1,700. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,700, with a high of £2,550 and a low of £1,150. 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 38 Year Old 2016 Release is down 10.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 5.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Brora 38 Year Old 2016 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 £1,700 (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 38 Year Old 2016 Release has moved down 10.5%, with a current median hammer price of £1,700. The bottle has been observed at auction across 104 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 £1,700, 24-month median £1,700 — 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 38 Year Old 2016 Release that hammers at £1,700 would cost the buyer approximately £2,142 all-in including buyer's premium.
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