latest hammer price
Auction lots
187
Houses
1
Last sold
19 days ago
Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Rosebank aged 25 years, bottled in 2007. Based on 187 recorded auction lots across 66 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,113, with the most recent sale at £950. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £600 (low) to £1,900 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release is £801–£1,099 (±16% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release is down 26.9%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (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.
Rosebank is a whisky distillery. Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old, distilled in 1981, released in 2007.
Closed / ghost distillery
Rosebank was silent from 1993 until its 2023 revival, so bottlings from the original distillery are finite.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£950
24-month median
£1,113
24-month high
£1,900
24-month low
£600
Estimated value · likely range
£801–£1,099 ±16%
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
▲ 75% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 10% of tracked bottles
Last seen
19 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £950 | 1 |
| September 2026 | £900 | 1 |
| August 2026 | £950 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £800 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £850 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £900 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £950 | 2 |
| June 2024 | £1,050 | 2 |
| May 2024 | £850 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £1,050 | 2 |
| October 2023 | £1,100 | 2 |
| September 2023 | £1,300 | 2 |
Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release 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 up 75% on the previous year. 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 Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release at auction is £950. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,113, with a high of £1,900 and a low of £600. 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.
Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release is down 26.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 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 £1,113 (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 Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release has moved down 26.9%, with a current median hammer price of £1,113. The bottle has been observed at auction across 187 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 £950, 24-month median £1,113 — 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 Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old 2007 Release that hammers at £950 would cost the buyer approximately £1,197 all-in including buyer's premium.
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