latest hammer price
Auction lots
15
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Caol Ila aged 12 years. Based on 15 recorded auction lots across 6 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £208, with the most recent sale at £180. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £180 (low) to £300 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old is £146–£214 (±19% around the latest sale).
Caol Ila is a whisky distillery. Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Caol Ila rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£180
24-month median
£208
24-month high
£300
24-month low
£180
Estimated value · likely range
£146–£214 ±19%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
5 lots
Cadence
≈ every 73 days
Trend
▼ 50% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £180 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £215 | 4 |
| July 2025 | £200 | 4 |
| June 2025 | £200 | 2 |
| March 2025 | £300 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £300 | 2 |
Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old appeared in 5 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 50% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 17% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old at auction is £180. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £208, with a high of £300 and a low of £180. 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 Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £180 to £300 (median £208).
Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 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 £208 (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%.
Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old has appeared in 15 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £208. 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 £180, 24-month median £208 — 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 Manager’s Dram Caol Ila 12 Year Old that hammers at £180 would cost the buyer approximately £227 all-in including buyer's premium.
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