latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
327 days ago
Midleton Very Rare 2012 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Midleton, bottled in 2012. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £270, with the most recent sale at £750. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £135 (low) to £750 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Midleton Very Rare 2012 Release is £450–£1,050 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Midleton Very Rare 2012 Release is up 194.1%, with a 6-month trend of +188.5% (up). 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 2012 Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2012.
Named / limited release
Released as Midleton Very Rare 2012 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
£750
24-month median
£270
24-month high
£750
24-month low
£135
Estimated value · likely range
£450–£1,050 ±40%
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
327 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £750 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £700 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £650 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £750 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £180 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £290 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £260 | 1 |
| July 2018 | £240 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £280 | 1 |
| May 2018 | £200 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £290 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £250 | 1 |
Midleton Very Rare 2012 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 2012 Release at auction is £750. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £270, with a high of £750 and a low of £135. 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 2012 Release is up 194.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 188.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Midleton Very Rare 2012 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 £270 (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 2012 Release has moved up 194.1%, with a current median hammer price of £270. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £750, 24-month median £270 — 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 2012 Release that hammers at £750 would cost the buyer approximately £945 all-in including buyer's premium.
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