latest hammer price
Auction lots
83
Houses
1
Last sold
91 days ago
Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Compass Box Magic, bottled in 2020. Based on 83 recorded auction lots across 25 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £103, with the most recent sale at £80. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £80 (low) to £230 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release is £74–£86 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release is down 36%, with a 6-month trend of -15.8% (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.
Compass Box Magic is a whisky distillery. Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2020.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 2020) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£80
24-month median
£103
24-month high
£230
24-month low
£80
Estimated value · likely range
£74–£86 ±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
▲ 17% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 12% of tracked bottles
Last seen
91 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £80 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £83 | 4 |
| September 2025 | £110 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £85 | 2 |
| February 2025 | £110 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £95 | 2 |
| August 2024 | £95 | 2 |
| June 2024 | £100 | 4 |
| March 2024 | £95 | 2 |
| August 2023 | £95 | 2 |
| July 2023 | £115 | 4 |
| April 2023 | £110 | 4 |
Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 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 up 17% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 12% by auction activity among the 30,866 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release at auction is £80. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £103, with a high of £230 and a low of £80. 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.
Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release is down 36% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 15.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 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 £103 (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 Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release has moved down 36%, with a current median hammer price of £103. The bottle has been observed at auction across 83 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 £80, 24-month median £103 — 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 Compass Box Magic Cask 2020 Release that hammers at £80 would cost the buyer approximately £101 all-in including buyer's premium.
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