latest hammer price · blended across 3 auction houses
Auction lots
6
Houses
3
Last sold
54 days ago
Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Rosebank aged 20 years. Based on 6 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £320, with the most recent sale at £320. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £315 (low) to £400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask is £294–£346 (±8% around the latest sale).
Rosebank is a whisky distillery. Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask is an age-stated bottling at 20 years old, distilled in 1981.
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.
Age statement
A 20-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as caskfirst, 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.
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Latest sale
£320
24-month median
£320
24-month high
£400
24-month low
£315
Estimated value · likely range
£294–£346 ±8%
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
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Houses
3
Activity rank
top 22% of tracked bottles
Last seen
54 days ago
Rarity signal: few lots but spread across 3 houses — sellers seek this bottle out.
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer · whisky.auction
Cross-house median
£325
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 3 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 4 | £320 | £340 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £330 | £330 |
| whisky.auction | 1 | £300 | £300 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £320 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £315 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £360 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £400 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £320 | 1 |
Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask appeared in 4 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). It has traded at 3 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 22% 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 Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask at auction is £320. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £320, with a high of £400 and a low of £315. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £315 to £400 (median £320).
Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask 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 £320 (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%.
Rosebank - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask has appeared in 6 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £320. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £320, 24-month median £320 — 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 - 20 Year Old (1981) First Cask that hammers at £320 would cost the buyer approximately £403 all-in including buyer's premium.
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