latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
19
Houses
2
Last sold
44 days ago
Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa. Based on 19 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,833, with the most recent sale at £1,600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,400 (low) to £3,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is £1,425–£1,775 (±11% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is down 15.8%, with a 6-month trend of -20% (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.
Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 2000.
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 (2000), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 7608) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£1,600
24-month median
£1,833
24-month high
£3,400
24-month low
£1,400
Estimated value · likely range
£1,425–£1,775 ±11%
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
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 19% of tracked bottles
Last seen
44 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£1,767
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 | 11 | £1,600 | £1,600 |
| Whisky Hammer | 6 | £1,600 | £2,000 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £1,600 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £1,500 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £1,600 | 2 |
| January 2025 | £1,400 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £1,500 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £2,000 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £2,000 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £2,000 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £3,050 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £2,500 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £3,400 | 1 |
| August 2021 | £2,000 | 1 |
More from Karuizawa
Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) appeared in 4 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 19% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) at auction is £1,600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,833, with a high of £3,400 and a low of £1,400. 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.
Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is down 15.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 20%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) 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 £1,833 (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 Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) has moved down 15.8%, with a current median hammer price of £1,833. The bottle has been observed at auction across 19 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 £1,600, 24-month median £1,833 — 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 - 2000 (Cask #7608) that hammers at £1,600 would cost the buyer approximately £2,016 all-in including buyer's premium.
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