latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
327 days ago
Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Nikka aged 35 years. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,600, with the most recent sale at £3,100. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,205 (low) to £5,800 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old is £2,260–£3,940 (±27% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old is up 157.3%, with a 6-month trend of -38% (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.
Nikka is a whisky distillery. Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 35 years old.
Considerable age
A 35-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old 75cl, 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
£3,100
24-month median
£3,600
24-month high
£5,800
24-month low
£1,205
Estimated value · likely range
£2,260–£3,940 ±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
327 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £3,100 | 2 |
| January 2025 | £3,000 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £3,600 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £4,800 | 1 |
| June 2021 | £4,800 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £4,600 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £5,000 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £5,400 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £5,800 | 1 |
| September 2019 | £4,400 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £2,600 | 1 |
| February 2017 | £2,400 | 1 |
Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old 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 Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old at auction is £3,100. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,600, with a high of £5,800 and a low of £1,205. 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.
Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old is up 157.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 38%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old 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 £3,600 (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 Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old has moved up 157.3%, with a current median hammer price of £3,600. 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 £3,100, 24-month median £3,600 — 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 Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old that hammers at £3,100 would cost the buyer approximately £3,906 all-in including buyer's premium.
Own a bottle of Nikka Taketsuru 35 Year Old?
Track it against live auction data and see your portfolio's real market value — free for up to 3 bottles.
Start tracking free →Own a different bottle? Get a free whisky valuation for any bottle — no signup, no card.