latest hammer price · blended across 3 auction houses
Auction lots
18
Houses
3
Last sold
54 days ago
Glenrothes 25 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenrothes aged 25 years. Based on 18 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £235, with the most recent sale at £260. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £190 (low) to £380 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenrothes 25 Year Old is £239–£281 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenrothes 25 Year Old is up 0%, with a 6-month trend of -18.7% (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 25 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£260
24-month median
£235
24-month high
£380
24-month low
£190
Estimated value · likely range
£239–£281 ±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
13 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Trend
▲ 117% vs prior year
Houses
3
Activity rank
top 6% of tracked bottles
Last seen
54 days ago
Rarity signal: few lots but spread across 3 houses — sellers seek this bottle out.
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer · whisky.auction
Cross-house median
£240
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 3 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 16 | £260 | £235 |
| Whisky Hammer | 12 | £260 | £260 |
| whisky.auction | 1 | £85 | £85 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £260 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £230 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £240 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £210 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £255 | 2 |
| March 2025 | £340 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £320 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £230 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £280 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £210 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £190 | 2 |
| July 2021 | £220 | 1 |
More from Glenrothes
Glenrothes 25 Year Old appeared in 13 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 117% on the previous year. It has traded at 3 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 6% 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 25 Year Old at auction is £260. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £235, with a high of £380 and a low of £190. 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 25 Year Old is up 0% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 18.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenrothes 25 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 £235 (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 25 Year Old has moved up 0%, with a current median hammer price of £235. The bottle has been observed at auction across 18 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 £260, 24-month median £235 — 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 25 Year Old that hammers at £260 would cost the buyer approximately £328 all-in including buyer's premium.
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