latest hammer price
Auction lots
38
Houses
1
Last sold
13 days ago
SMWS 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Rosebank aged 23 years. Based on 38 recorded auction lots across 26 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £265, with the most recent sale at £530. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £165 (low) to £1,300 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is £388–£673 (±27% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is up 89.3%, with a 6-month trend of +51.4% (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 SMWS 25.68 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.
Named / limited release
Released as SMWS 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 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
£530
24-month median
£265
24-month high
£1,300
24-month low
£165
Estimated value · likely range
£388–£673 ±27%
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
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
13 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £530 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £540 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £1,300 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £750 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £580 | 1 |
| January 2019 | £580 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £350 | 1 |
| August 2017 | £370 | 1 |
| May 2017 | £310 | 2 |
| March 2017 | £340 | 1 |
| December 2016 | £310 | 1 |
| November 2016 | £350 | 1 |
SMWS 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 28% 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 SMWS 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old at auction is £530. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £265, with a high of £1,300 and a low of £165. 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 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old is up 89.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 51.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 25.68 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 £265 (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 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old has moved up 89.3%, with a current median hammer price of £265. The bottle has been observed at auction across 38 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 £530, 24-month median £265 — 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 25.68 Rosebank 1990 23 Year Old that hammers at £530 would cost the buyer approximately £668 all-in including buyer's premium.
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