latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
12
Houses
2
Last sold
33 days ago
Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition is a collectable Scotch whisky from Yamazaki, bottled in 2016. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 10 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £370, with the most recent sale at £275. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £220 (low) to £600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition is £182–£368 (±34% around the latest sale).
Yamazaki is a whisky distillery. Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2016.
Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Yamazaki rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£275
24-month median
£370
24-month high
£600
24-month low
£220
Estimated value · likely range
£182–£368 ±34%
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
26 lots
Cadence
≈ 2 per month
Trend
▲ 225% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 2% of tracked bottles
Last seen
33 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£290
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 144 | £240 | £290 |
| Whisky Hammer | 12 | £275 | £315 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £275 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £290 | 3 |
| April 2026 | £290 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £220 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £600 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £340 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £400 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £560 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £580 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £480 | 1 |
Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition appeared in 26 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — regularly traded (several lots most weeks). That is up 225% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 2% 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 Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition at auction is £275. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £370, with a high of £600 and a low of £220. 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 Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £220 to £600 (median £370).
Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition 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 £370 (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%.
Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £370. 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 £275, 24-month median £370 — 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 Yamazaki 2016 Limited Edition that hammers at £275 would cost the buyer approximately £347 all-in including buyer's premium.
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