latest hammer price
Auction lots
26
Houses
1
Last sold
12 days ago
Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Talisker aged 25 years, bottled in 2005. Based on 26 recorded auction lots across 21 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £290, with the most recent sale at £480. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £120 (low) to £560 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release is £298–£662 (±38% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release is up 140%, with a 6-month trend of +54.8% (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.
Talisker is a whisky distillery. Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old, released in 2005.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release, 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
£480
24-month median
£290
24-month high
£560
24-month low
£120
Estimated value · likely range
£298–£662 ±38%
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
12 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £480 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £420 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £480 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £520 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £560 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £520 | 2 |
| March 2020 | £310 | 2 |
| January 2020 | £320 | 2 |
| November 2019 | £320 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £290 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £320 | 1 |
| May 2018 | £250 | 2 |
Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release 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 Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release at auction is £480. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £290, with a high of £560 and a low of £120. 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.
Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release is up 140% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 54.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release 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 £290 (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 Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release has moved up 140%, with a current median hammer price of £290. The bottle has been observed at auction across 26 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 £480, 24-month median £290 — 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 Talisker 25 Year Old 2005 Release that hammers at £480 would cost the buyer approximately £605 all-in including buyer's premium.
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