latest hammer price
Auction lots
42
Houses
1
Last sold
117 days ago
Glenrothes 1991 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenrothes. Based on 42 recorded auction lots across 35 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £70, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £45 (low) to £150 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenrothes 1991 is £49–£71 (±18% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenrothes 1991 is down 20%, with a 6-month trend of -60% (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.
Glenrothes is a whisky distillery. Glenrothes 1991 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1991.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1991), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Glenrothes 1991, 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
£60
24-month median
£70
24-month high
£150
24-month low
£45
Estimated value · likely range
£49–£71 ±18%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
117 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £60 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £85 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £95 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £61 | 4 |
| January 2022 | £85 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £80 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £150 | 2 |
| November 2020 | £90 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £85 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £75 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £85 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £80 | 1 |
Glenrothes 1991 appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 39% 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 Glenrothes 1991 at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £70, with a high of £150 and a low of £45. 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.
Glenrothes 1991 is down 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 60%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenrothes 1991 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 £70 (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 Glenrothes 1991 has moved down 20%, with a current median hammer price of £70. The bottle has been observed at auction across 42 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 £70 — 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 Glenrothes 1991 that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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