latest hammer price
Auction lots
10
Houses
1
Last sold
54 days ago
Midleton Very Rare 1996 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Midleton, bottled in 1996. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £400, with the most recent sale at £520. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £280 (low) to £600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Midleton Very Rare 1996 Release is £390–£650 (±25% around the latest sale).
Midleton is a whisky distillery. Midleton Very Rare 1996 Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 1996.
Midleton Very Rare 1996 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
£520
24-month median
£400
24-month high
£600
24-month low
£280
Estimated value · likely range
£390–£650 ±25%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
54 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £520 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £520 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £400 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £600 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £280 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £320 | 1 |
| May 2019 | £420 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £340 | 1 |
| June 2017 | £320 | 2 |
Midleton Very Rare 1996 Release appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 39% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Midleton Very Rare 1996 Release at auction is £520. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £400, with a high of £600 and a low of £280. 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 1996 Release, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £280 to £600 (median £400).
Midleton Very Rare 1996 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 £400 (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 1996 Release has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £400. 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 £520, 24-month median £400 — 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 1996 Release that hammers at £520 would cost the buyer approximately £655 all-in including buyer's premium.
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