latest hammer price
Auction lots
14
Houses
1
Last sold
180 days ago
Midleton Very Rare 2001 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Midleton, bottled in 2001. Based on 14 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £520, with the most recent sale at £520. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £125 (low) to £800 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Midleton Very Rare 2001 Release is £380–£660 (±27% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Midleton Very Rare 2001 Release is up 316%, with a 6-month trend of -25.7% (down). 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.
Midleton is a whisky distillery. Midleton Very Rare 2001 Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2001.
Midleton Very Rare 2001 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
£520
24-month high
£800
24-month low
£125
Estimated value · likely range
£380–£660 ±27%
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
180 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £520 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £560 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £700 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £800 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £560 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £600 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £700 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £320 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £340 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £400 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £290 | 2 |
| April 2013 | £160 | 1 |
Midleton Very Rare 2001 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 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Midleton Very Rare 2001 Release at auction is £520. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £520, with a high of £800 and a low of £125. 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.
Midleton Very Rare 2001 Release is up 316% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 25.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Midleton Very Rare 2001 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 £520 (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 Midleton Very Rare 2001 Release has moved up 316%, with a current median hammer price of £520. The bottle has been observed at auction across 14 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 £520, 24-month median £520 — 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 2001 Release that hammers at £520 would cost the buyer approximately £655 all-in including buyer's premium.
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