latest hammer price
Auction lots
26
Houses
1
Last sold
1860 days ago
Karuizawa 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa aged 30 years. Based on 26 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,900, with the most recent sale at £6,000. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,000 (low) to £6,000 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Karuizawa 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 is £5,095–£6,905 (±15% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Karuizawa 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 is up 93.5%, with a 6-month trend of +185.7% (up). 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 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old.
Closed / ghost distillery
Karuizawa closed in 2000 and has since been demolished — no new whisky will ever be produced, which underpins exceptional auction demand.
Considerable age
A 30-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 3622) 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.
Latest sale
£6,000
24-month median
£2,900
24-month high
£6,000
24-month low
£2,000
Estimated value · likely range
£5,095–£6,905 ±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
0 lots
Last seen
1860 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | £6,000 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £6,000 | 1 |
| April 2018 | £2,900 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £2,900 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £2,900 | 2 |
| April 2017 | £2,250 | 4 |
| March 2017 | £2,100 | 2 |
| February 2017 | £2,300 | 2 |
| November 2016 | £3,300 | 2 |
| July 2016 | £2,000 | 2 |
| March 2016 | £2,700 | 2 |
| November 2015 | £3,300 | 1 |
Karuizawa 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 appeared in 0 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market).
The latest hammer price for Karuizawa 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 at auction is £6,000. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,900, with a high of £6,000 and a low of £2,000. 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 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 is up 93.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 185.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Karuizawa 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 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 £2,900 (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 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 has moved up 93.5%, with a current median hammer price of £2,900. The bottle has been observed at auction across 26 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 £6,000, 24-month median £2,900 — 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 30 Year Old Samurai Cask #3622 that hammers at £6,000 would cost the buyer approximately £7,560 all-in including buyer's premium.
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