latest hammer price
Auction lots
9
Houses
1
Last sold
16 days ago
Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice is a collectable Scotch whisky from Strathmill. Based on 9 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £200, with the most recent sale at £170. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £150 (low) to £290 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice is £149–£191 (±13% around the latest sale).
Strathmill is a whisky distillery. Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1996.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1996), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice, 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
£170
24-month median
£200
24-month high
£290
24-month low
£150
Estimated value · likely range
£149–£191 ±13%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 36% of tracked bottles
Last seen
16 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £170 | 1 |
| September 2026 | £150 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £170 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £190 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £290 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £210 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £290 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £220 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £200 | 1 |
More from Strathmill
Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice appeared in 2 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 36% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice at auction is £170. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £200, with a high of £290 and a low of £150. 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 Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £150 to £290 (median £200).
Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice 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 £200 (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%.
Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice has appeared in 9 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £200. 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 £170, 24-month median £200 — 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 Strathmill 1996 Managers' Choice that hammers at £170 would cost the buyer approximately £214 all-in including buyer's premium.
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