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Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608)

£1,600

latest hammer price

Rare at auction· 2 lots a year

Auction lots

6

Houses

1

Last sold

193 days ago

Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa. Based on 6 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,000, with the most recent sale at £1,600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,600 (low) to £3,050 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is £1,472–£1,728 8% around the latest sale).

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About Karuizawa

Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 2000.

What drives this bottle's value

  • 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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Karuizawa
Vintage
2000
Cask number
7608
Bottle size
700ml

Latest sale

£1,600

24-month median

£2,000

24-month high

£3,050

24-month low

£1,600

Estimated value · likely range

£1,472–£1,728 ±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.

Market presence

last 12 months

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

193 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

Price history (monthly median)

£1,552£2,347£3,142Apr 23Aug 23Feb 24Feb 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
February 2026£1,6002
April 2024£2,0001
February 2024£2,0001
August 2023£2,0001
April 2023£3,0501

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) at auction?

Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) 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 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608)?

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 £2,000, with a high of £3,050 and a low of £1,600. 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.

How much has Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £1,600 to £3,050 (median £2,000).

Where can I sell Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608)?

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 £2,000 (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%.

Is Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) a good investment?

Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608) has appeared in 6 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,000. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Karuizawa - 2000 (Cask #7608)?

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 £2,000 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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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