latest hammer price
Auction lots
79
Houses
1
Last sold
208 days ago
Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora aged 20 years. Based on 79 recorded auction lots across 54 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £800, with the most recent sale at £900. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £240 (low) to £1,800 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old is £662–£1,138 (±26% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old is down 40%, with a 6-month trend of -18.2% (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.
Brora is a whisky distillery. Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 20 years old, distilled in 1982.
Closed / ghost distillery
Brora was silent from 1983 until its 2021 revival, so whisky from the original distillery is finite and keenly collected.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1982), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 20-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
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
£900
24-month median
£800
24-month high
£1,800
24-month low
£240
Estimated value · likely range
£662–£1,138 ±26%
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
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
208 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £900 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £800 | 2 |
| July 2024 | £800 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £1,000 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £1,150 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £925 | 2 |
| January 2024 | £1,100 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £1,050 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £1,300 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £1,800 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £1,350 | 2 |
| November 2021 | £1,300 | 1 |
Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old appeared in 3 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 28% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old at auction is £900. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £800, with a high of £1,800 and a low of £240. 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.
Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old is down 40% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 18.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 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 £800 (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 Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old has moved down 40%, with a current median hammer price of £800. The bottle has been observed at auction across 79 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 £900, 24-month median £800 — 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 Rare Malts Brora 1982 20 Year Old that hammers at £900 would cost the buyer approximately £1,134 all-in including buyer's premium.
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