latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
58
Houses
2
Last sold
81 days ago
Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Cardhu aged 11 years. Based on 58 recorded auction lots across 24 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £55, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £50 (low) to £85 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release is £55–£65 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release is up 14.3%, with a 6-month trend of +9.1% (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.
Cardhu is a whisky distillery. Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release is an age-stated bottling at 11 years old, distilled in 2020.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2020), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as special, 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.
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Latest sale
£60
24-month median
£55
24-month high
£85
24-month low
£50
Estimated value · likely range
£55–£65 ±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.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
7 lots
Cadence
≈ every 52 days
Trend
▼ 30% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 13% of tracked bottles
Last seen
81 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£55
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 | 37 | £50 | £55 |
| Whisky Hammer | 7 | £60 | £60 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £60 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £53 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £55 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £50 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £53 | 6 |
| June 2025 | £65 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £55 | 2 |
| August 2024 | £50 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £60 | 2 |
| February 2024 | £60 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £50 | 4 |
| September 2023 | £50 | 2 |
Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release appeared in 7 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is down 30% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 13% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £55, with a high of £85 and a low of £50. 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.
Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release is up 14.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 9.1%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special 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 £55 (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 Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release has moved up 14.3%, with a current median hammer price of £55. The bottle has been observed at auction across 58 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 £60, 24-month median £55 — 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 Cardhu 11 Year Old 2020 Special Release that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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