SMWS 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa aged 12 years. Based on 31 recorded auction lots across 26 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £550, with the most recent sale at £900. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £180 (low) to £1,900 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old is £540–£1,260 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old is up 80%, with a 6-month trend of -10% (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.
Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. SMWS 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old, distilled in 2000.
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 (2000), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 132x6) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
Independent bottling
An independent bottling by smws, typically produced in far smaller numbers than an official distillery release.
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
£550
24-month high
£1,900
24-month low
£180
Estimated value · likely range
£540–£1,260 ±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.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | £900 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £1,600 | 1 |
| October 2022 | £1,900 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £1,175 | 2 |
| November 2019 | £1,150 | 1 |
| December 2018 | £900 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £1,000 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £1,150 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £600 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £720 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £740 | 2 |
| May 2017 | £600 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for SMWS 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old at auction is £900. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £550, with a high of £1,900 and a low of £180. 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 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old is up 80% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 10%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 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 £550 (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 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old has moved up 80%, with a current median hammer price of £550. The bottle has been observed at auction across 31 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 £550 — 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 132.6 Karuizawa 2000 12 Year Old that hammers at £900 would cost the buyer approximately £1,134 all-in including buyer's premium.
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