SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Rosebank aged 23 years. Based on 24 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £320, with the most recent sale at £580. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £230 (low) to £950 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is £390–£770 (±33% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is up 152.2%, with a 6-month trend of +87.1% (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. SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 23 years old, distilled in 1990.
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 (1990), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 23-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 25x66) 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
£580
24-month median
£320
24-month high
£950
24-month low
£230
Estimated value · likely range
£390–£770 ±33%
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 | £580 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £950 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £460 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £440 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £520 | 2 |
| March 2019 | £600 | 1 |
| June 2017 | £310 | 1 |
| May 2017 | £320 | 1 |
| January 2017 | £360 | 1 |
| November 2016 | £350 | 1 |
| July 2016 | £245 | 2 |
| December 2015 | £240 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old at auction is £580. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £320, with a high of £950 and a low of £230. 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 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is up 152.2% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 87.1%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 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 £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%.
Over the past 12 months SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old has moved up 152.2%, with a current median hammer price of £320. 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 £580, 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 SMWS 25.66 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old that hammers at £580 would cost the buyer approximately £731 all-in including buyer's premium.
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