latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
54
Houses
2
Last sold
33 days ago
The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Lakes. Based on 54 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £120, with the most recent sale at £120. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £71 (low) to £150 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 is £100–£140 (±17% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 is down 20%, with a 6-month trend of +41.2% (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.
Lakes is a whisky distillery. The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 is a no-age-statement bottling.
Named / limited release
Released as reserveseq4whiskymaker, 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.
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Latest sale
£120
24-month median
£120
24-month high
£150
24-month low
£71
Estimated value · likely range
£100–£140 ±17%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Regularly tradedseveral lots most weeks
Seen at auction
36 lots
Cadence
≈ 3 per month
Trend
▼ 3% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 1% of tracked bottles
Last seen
33 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Scotch Whisky Auctions
Cross-house median
£130
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 43 | £110 | £180 |
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 29 | £120 | £120 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £120 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £71 | 5 |
| June 2026 | £120 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £130 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £75 | 2 |
| January 2026 | £120 | 4 |
| December 2025 | £85 | 6 |
| November 2025 | £80 | 4 |
| October 2025 | £120 | 2 |
| May 2025 | £120 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £103 | 4 |
| December 2024 | £110 | 8 |
More from Lakes
The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 appeared in 36 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — regularly traded (several lots most weeks). That is down 3% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 1% 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 The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 at auction is £120. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £120, with a high of £150 and a low of £71. 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.
The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 is down 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 41.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 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 £120 (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 The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 has moved down 20%, with a current median hammer price of £120. The bottle has been observed at auction across 54 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 £120, 24-month median £120 — 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 The Lakes Distillery The Whiskymaker’s Reserve No.4 that hammers at £120 would cost the buyer approximately £151 all-in including buyer's premium.
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