latest hammer price
Auction lots
11
Houses
1
Last sold
426 days ago
Karuizawa 8 Year Old Pure Malt is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa aged 8 years. Based on 11 recorded auction lots across 10 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £335, with the most recent sale at £540. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £250 (low) to £650 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Karuizawa 8 Year Old Pure Malt is £451–£629 (±16% around the latest sale).
Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Karuizawa 8 Year Old Pure Malt is an age-stated bottling at 8 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.
Named / limited release
Released as Karuizawa 8 Year Old Pure Malt, 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
£540
24-month median
£335
24-month high
£650
24-month low
£250
Estimated value · likely range
£451–£629 ±16%
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
426 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | £540 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £320 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £650 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £320 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £330 | 2 |
| March 2019 | £460 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £350 | 1 |
| February 2018 | £340 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £330 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £250 | 1 |
Karuizawa 8 Year Old Pure Malt 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 8 Year Old Pure Malt at auction is £540. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £335, with a high of £650 and a low of £250. 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 8 Year Old Pure Malt, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £250 to £650 (median £335).
Karuizawa 8 Year Old Pure Malt 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 £335 (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 8 Year Old Pure Malt has appeared in 11 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £335. 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 £540, 24-month median £335 — 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 8 Year Old Pure Malt that hammers at £540 would cost the buyer approximately £680 all-in including buyer's premium.
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