latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
20
Houses
2
Last sold
53 days ago
Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Caol Ila aged 12 years. Based on 20 recorded auction lots across 19 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £45, with the most recent sale at £40. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £35 (low) to £50 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) is £37–£43 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) is down 11.1%, with a 6-month trend of +8.1% (up). 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.
Caol Ila is a whisky distillery. Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Non-standard format
Bottled in a 1000ml format rather than the standard 700ml, which sets it apart from the regular run.
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
£40
24-month median
£45
24-month high
£50
24-month low
£35
Estimated value · likely range
£37–£43 ±8%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
53 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£45
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 | 16 | £40 | £45 |
| Whisky Hammer | 3 | £42 | £37 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £40 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £42 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £45 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £45 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £45 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £45 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £37 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £35 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £40 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £45 | 1 |
| June 2021 | £35 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £43 | 2 |
Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 39% 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 Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) at auction is £40. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £45, with a high of £50 and a low of £35. 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.
Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) is down 11.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 8.1%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) 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 £45 (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 Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) has moved down 11.1%, with a current median hammer price of £45. The bottle has been observed at auction across 20 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 £40, 24-month median £45 — 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 Caol Ila - 12 Year Old (1 litre) that hammers at £40 would cost the buyer approximately £50 all-in including buyer's premium.
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