Karuizawa 33 Year Old (1981) Single Cask (#136) (1981) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa aged 33 years. Based on 1 recorded auction lots across 1 month of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,375, with the most recent sale at £2,375. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,375 (low) to £2,375 (high).
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Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Karuizawa 33 Year Old (1981) Single Cask (#136) is an age-stated bottling at 33 years old, distilled in 1981.
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 (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 33-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 136) 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
£2,375
24-month median
£2,375
24-month high
£2,375
24-month low
£2,375
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £2,375 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Karuizawa 33 Year Old (1981) Single Cask (#136) (1981) at auction is £2,375. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,375, with a high of £2,375 and a low of £2,375. 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 33 Year Old (1981) Single Cask (#136) (1981), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,375 to £2,375 (median £2,375).
Karuizawa 33 Year Old (1981) Single Cask (#136) (1981) 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 £2,375 (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 33 Year Old (1981) Single Cask (#136) (1981) has appeared in 1 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,375. 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 £2,375, 24-month median £2,375 — 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 33 Year Old (1981) Single Cask (#136) (1981) that hammers at £2,375 would cost the buyer approximately £2,993 all-in including buyer's premium.
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