latest hammer price
Auction lots
24
Houses
1
Last sold
355 days ago
SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa aged 22 years. Based on 24 recorded auction lots across 21 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £840, with the most recent sale at £2,000. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £275 (low) to £3,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old is £1,200–£2,800 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old is up 177.8%, with a 6-month trend of +60% (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.
Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Karuizawa SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 22 years old, distilled in 1991.
Closed / ghost distillery
Karuizawa closed in 2000 and has since been demolished — no new whisky will ever be produced, which underpins exceptional auction demand.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1991), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 22-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 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
£2,000
24-month median
£840
24-month high
£3,600
24-month low
£275
Estimated value · likely range
£1,200–£2,800 ±40%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
355 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £2,000 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £3,600 | 1 |
| November 2020 | £2,100 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £1,700 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £2,000 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £1,950 | 2 |
| January 2018 | £1,250 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £2,200 | 1 |
| January 2017 | £980 | 1 |
| August 2016 | £840 | 1 |
| May 2016 | £960 | 1 |
| April 2016 | £800 | 1 |
More from Karuizawa
SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% 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 SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old at auction is £2,000. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £840, with a high of £3,600 and a low of £275. 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.
SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old is up 177.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 60%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 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 £840 (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 SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old has moved up 177.8%, with a current median hammer price of £840. The bottle has been observed at auction across 24 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 £2,000, 24-month median £840 — 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 SMWS 132.2 Karuizawa 1991 22 Year Old that hammers at £2,000 would cost the buyer approximately £2,520 all-in including buyer's premium.
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