latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
47
Houses
2
Last sold
8 days ago
Cardhu - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Cardhu aged 12 years. Based on 47 recorded auction lots across 36 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £30, with the most recent sale at £35. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £23 (low) to £85 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Cardhu - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) is £32–£38 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Cardhu - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) is up 50%, with a 6-month trend of +7.7% (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 - 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
£35
24-month median
£30
24-month high
£85
24-month low
£23
Estimated value · likely range
£32–£38 ±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
▲ 133% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 13% of tracked bottles
Last seen
8 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£30
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 | £35 | £30 |
| Whisky Hammer | 11 | £28 | £28 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £35 | 3 |
| August 2025 | £35 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £50 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £30 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £30 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £40 | 2 |
| October 2022 | £33 | 2 |
| November 2021 | £35 | 1 |
| October 2021 | £30 | 2 |
| May 2021 | £30 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £35 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £35 | 1 |
Cardhu - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) 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 up 133% 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 - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) at auction is £35. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £30, with a high of £85 and a low of £23. 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 - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) is up 50% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 7.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Cardhu - 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 £30 (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 - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) has moved up 50%, with a current median hammer price of £30. The bottle has been observed at auction across 47 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 £35, 24-month median £30 — 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 - 12 Year Old (1 Litre) that hammers at £35 would cost the buyer approximately £44 all-in including buyer's premium.
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