latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
506 days ago
Kurayoshi 12 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Kurayoshi aged 12 years. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £51, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £40 (low) to £70 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Kurayoshi 12 Year Old is £51–£69 (±15% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Kurayoshi 12 Year Old is down 7.7%, with a 6-month trend of +50% (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.
Kurayoshi is a whisky distillery. Kurayoshi 12 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as Kurayoshi 12 Year Old, 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
£60
24-month median
£51
24-month high
£70
24-month low
£40
Estimated value · likely range
£51–£69 ±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
506 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | £60 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £65 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £60 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £45 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £40 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £45 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £40 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £45 | 1 |
| August 2021 | £45 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £60 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £70 | 1 |
| November 2020 | £45 | 1 |
Kurayoshi 12 Year Old 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 Kurayoshi 12 Year Old at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £51, with a high of £70 and a low of £40. 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.
Kurayoshi 12 Year Old is down 7.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 50%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Kurayoshi 12 Year Old 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 £51 (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 Kurayoshi 12 Year Old has moved down 7.7%, with a current median hammer price of £51. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £60, 24-month median £51 — 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 Kurayoshi 12 Year Old that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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