latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
30
Houses
2
Last sold
89 days ago
Famous Grouse Smoky Black is a collectable Scotch whisky from Famous Grouse Smoky Black. Based on 30 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £20, with the most recent sale at £25. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £20 (low) to £25 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Famous Grouse Smoky Black is £23–£27 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Famous Grouse Smoky Black is up 0%, with a 6-month trend of +25% (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.
Famous Grouse Smoky Black is a whisky distillery. Famous Grouse Smoky Black is a no-age-statement bottling.
Famous Grouse Smoky Black is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Famous Grouse Smoky Black rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£25
24-month median
£20
24-month high
£25
24-month low
£20
Estimated value · likely range
£23–£27 ±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
10 lots
Cadence
≈ every 37 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 8% of tracked bottles
Last seen
89 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£20
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 | 26 | £25 | £20 |
| Whisky Hammer | 6 | £20 | £20 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £25 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £20 | 4 |
| October 2025 | £20 | 2 |
| October 2023 | £20 | 2 |
| June 2023 | £20 | 4 |
| May 2023 | £20 | 2 |
| October 2022 | £20 | 2 |
| August 2020 | £20 | 2 |
| September 2019 | £20 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £20 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £25 | 2 |
| November 2018 | £20 | 2 |
More from Famous Grouse Smoky Black
Famous Grouse Smoky Black appeared in 10 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 8% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Famous Grouse Smoky Black at auction is £25. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £20, with a high of £25 and a low of £20. 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.
Famous Grouse Smoky Black is up 0% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 25%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Famous Grouse Smoky Black 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 £20 (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 Famous Grouse Smoky Black has moved up 0%, with a current median hammer price of £20. The bottle has been observed at auction across 30 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 £25, 24-month median £20 — 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 Famous Grouse Smoky Black that hammers at £25 would cost the buyer approximately £32 all-in including buyer's premium.
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