latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
36
Houses
2
Last sold
16 days ago
Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Raasay. Based on 36 recorded auction lots across 36 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £88, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £37 (low) to £220 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) is £49–£71 (±18% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) is up 0%, with a 6-month trend of +20% (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.
Raasay is a whisky distillery. Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 2020.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2020), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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.
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Latest sale
£60
24-month median
£88
24-month high
£220
24-month low
£37
Estimated value · likely range
£49–£71 ±18%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
7 lots
Cadence
≈ every 52 days
Trend
▼ 22% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 10% of tracked bottles
Last seen
16 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Scotch Whisky Auctions
Cross-house median
£88
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 36 | £60 | £88 |
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 2 | £35 | £143 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £60 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £42 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £40 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £65 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £80 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £37 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £50 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £42 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £49 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £65 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £100 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £75 | 1 |
More from Raasay
Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) appeared in 7 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is down 22% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 10% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £88, with a high of £220 and a low of £37. 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.
Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) is up 0% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 20%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) 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 £88 (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 Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) has moved up 0%, with a current median hammer price of £88. The bottle has been observed at auction across 36 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 £60, 24-month median £88 — 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 Raasay Inaugural Release (2020) that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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