latest hammer price
Auction lots
12
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
Midleton Very Rare 2005 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Midleton, bottled in 2005. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 12 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £370, with the most recent sale at £560. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £120 (low) to £600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Midleton Very Rare 2005 Release is £353–£767 (±37% around the latest sale).
Midleton is a whisky distillery. Midleton Very Rare 2005 Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2005.
Named / limited release
Released as Midleton Very Rare 2005 Release, 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
£560
24-month median
£370
24-month high
£600
24-month low
£120
Estimated value · likely range
£353–£767 ±37%
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
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £560 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £600 | 1 |
| October 2021 | £500 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £540 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £340 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £400 | 1 |
| December 2018 | £270 | 1 |
| July 2018 | £270 | 1 |
| July 2017 | £410 | 1 |
| March 2016 | £135 | 1 |
| September 2014 | £120 | 1 |
| August 2014 | £125 | 1 |
Midleton Very Rare 2005 Release appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% 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 2005 Release at auction is £560. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £370, with a high of £600 and a low of £120. 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 2005 Release, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £120 to £600 (median £370).
Midleton Very Rare 2005 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 £370 (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 2005 Release has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £370. 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 £560, 24-month median £370 — 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 2005 Release that hammers at £560 would cost the buyer approximately £706 all-in including buyer's premium.
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