latest hammer price
Auction lots
21
Houses
1
Last sold
13 days ago
Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Midleton, bottled in 1994. Based on 21 recorded auction lots across 10 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £625, with the most recent sale at £650. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £230 (low) to £700 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release is £494–£806 (±24% around the latest sale).
Midleton is a whisky distillery. Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 1994.
Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release 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 Midleton 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
£650
24-month median
£625
24-month high
£700
24-month low
£230
Estimated value · likely range
£494–£806 ±24%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
9 lots
Cadence
≈ every 41 days
Trend
▲ 13% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 9% of tracked bottles
Last seen
13 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £650 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £560 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £650 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £700 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £650 | 2 |
| January 2025 | £700 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £280 | 2 |
| November 2024 | £600 | 4 |
| January 2017 | £230 | 2 |
| March 2016 | £270 | 2 |
Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release appeared in 9 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 13% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 9% 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 Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release at auction is £650. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £625, with a high of £700 and a low of £230. 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 Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £230 to £700 (median £625).
Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release 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 £625 (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%.
Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release has appeared in 21 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £625. 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 £650, 24-month median £625 — 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 Midleton Very Rare 1994 Release that hammers at £650 would cost the buyer approximately £819 all-in including buyer's premium.
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