latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
4
Houses
2
Last sold
40 days ago
Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist is a collectable Scotch whisky from Hazelburn aged 8 years. Based on 4 recorded auction lots across 3 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £60, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £55 (low) to £65 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist is £55–£65 (±8% around the latest sale).
Hazelburn is a whisky distillery. Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist is an age-stated bottling at 8 years old, distilled in 1998.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1998), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as alchemist, 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.
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Latest sale
£60
24-month median
£60
24-month high
£65
24-month low
£55
Estimated value · likely range
£55–£65 ±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.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
40 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£63
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 | 3 | £60 | £60 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £70 | £70 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £60 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £65 | 1 |
| May 2014 | £55 | 1 |
More from Hazelburn
Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 28% 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 Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £60, with a high of £65 and a low of £55. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £55 to £65 (median £60).
Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist 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 £60 (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%.
Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist has appeared in 4 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £60. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £60 — 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 Hazelburn 1998 8 Year Old Alchemist that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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