latest hammer price
Auction lots
40
Houses
1
Last sold
271 days ago
Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa aged 40 years. Based on 40 recorded auction lots across 19 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,300, with the most recent sale at £1,600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £780 (low) to £2,300 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa is £1,040–£2,160 (±35% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa is up 100%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (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.
Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old.
Closed / ghost distillery
Karuizawa closed in 2000 and has since been demolished — no new whisky will ever be produced, which underpins exceptional auction demand.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£1,600
24-month median
£1,300
24-month high
£2,300
24-month low
£780
Estimated value · likely range
£1,040–£2,160 ±35%
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 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
271 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | £1,600 | 2 |
| December 2020 | £2,300 | 2 |
| November 2020 | £2,000 | 2 |
| October 2020 | £2,000 | 2 |
| December 2019 | £1,300 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £1,300 | 1 |
| September 2019 | £1,600 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £1,600 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £1,800 | 2 |
| January 2019 | £2,200 | 2 |
| November 2018 | £2,100 | 2 |
| June 2018 | £1,000 | 2 |
Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa 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 39% 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 Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa at auction is £1,600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,300, with a high of £2,300 and a low of £780. 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.
Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa is up 100% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa 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 £1,300 (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 Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa has moved up 100%, with a current median hammer price of £1,300. The bottle has been observed at auction across 40 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 £1,600, 24-month median £1,300 — 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 Uniting Nations 40 Year Old Essence of Karuizawa that hammers at £1,600 would cost the buyer approximately £2,016 all-in including buyer's premium.
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