latest hammer price
Auction lots
30
Houses
1
Last sold
35 days ago
Glenesk 5 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenesk aged 5 years. Based on 30 recorded auction lots across 26 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £120, with the most recent sale at £100. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £63 (low) to £195 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenesk 5 Year Old is £77–£123 (±23% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenesk 5 Year Old is up 0%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (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.
Glenesk is a whisky distillery. Glenesk 5 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 5 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as Glenesk 5 Year Old 75cl, 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.
Latest sale
£100
24-month median
£120
24-month high
£195
24-month low
£63
Estimated value · likely range
£77–£123 ±23%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 97% of tracked bottles
Last seen
35 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £100 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £120 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £80 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £130 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £130 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £100 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £100 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £160 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £63 | 2 |
| November 2020 | £85 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £110 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £78 | 2 |
Glenesk 5 Year Old appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 97% 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 Glenesk 5 Year Old at auction is £100. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £120, with a high of £195 and a low of £63. 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.
Glenesk 5 Year Old is up 0% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenesk 5 Year Old 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 £120 (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 Glenesk 5 Year Old has moved up 0%, with a current median hammer price of £120. 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 £100, 24-month median £120 — 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 Glenesk 5 Year Old that hammers at £100 would cost the buyer approximately £126 all-in including buyer's premium.
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