Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Octomore aged 5 years. Based on 71 recorded auction lots across 54 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £140, with the most recent sale at £170. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £95 (low) to £220 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old is £152–£188 (±11% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old is up 13.3%, with a 6-month trend of +30.8% (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.
Octomore is a whisky distillery. Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 5 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old, 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
£170
24-month median
£140
24-month high
£220
24-month low
£95
Estimated value · likely range
£152–£188 ±11%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £170 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £120 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £140 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £140 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £160 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £160 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £130 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £140 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £140 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £150 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £180 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £165 | 2 |
The latest hammer price for Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old at auction is £170. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £140, with a high of £220 and a low of £95. 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.
Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old is up 13.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 30.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Octomore 05.1 5 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 £140 (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 Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old has moved up 13.3%, with a current median hammer price of £140. The bottle has been observed at auction across 71 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 £170, 24-month median £140 — 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 Octomore 05.1 5 Year Old that hammers at £170 would cost the buyer approximately £214 all-in including buyer's premium.
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