latest hammer price
Auction lots
1
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa. Based on 1 recorded auction lots across 1 month of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,700, with the most recent sale at £2,700. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,700 (low) to £2,700 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai is £2,295–£3,105 (±15% around the latest sale).
Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1980.
Closed / ghost distillery
Karuizawa closed in 2000 and has since been demolished — no new whisky will ever be produced, which underpins exceptional auction demand.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai, 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
£2,700
24-month median
£2,700
24-month high
£2,700
24-month low
£2,700
Estimated value · likely range
£2,295–£3,105 ±15%
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 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Only one auction sale on record so far — £2,700 in August 2026. We need at least two monthly data points to chart a trend, so check back after more sales.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £2,700 | 1 |
Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai 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 98% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai at auction is £2,700. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,700, with a high of £2,700 and a low of £2,700. 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 Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,700 to £2,700 (median £2,700).
Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai 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 £2,700 (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%.
Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai has appeared in 1 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,700. 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 £2,700, 24-month median £2,700 — 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 Karuizawa 1980 Golden Samurai that hammers at £2,700 would cost the buyer approximately £3,402 all-in including buyer's premium.
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