Yamazaki 25 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Yamazaki aged 25 years. Based on 29 recorded auction lots across 25 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,600, with the most recent sale at £3,050. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,950 (low) to £11,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Yamazaki 25 Year Old is £2,806–£3,294 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Yamazaki 25 Year Old is down 66.1%, with a 6-month trend of -36.5% (down). 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.
Yamazaki is a whisky distillery. Yamazaki 25 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old.
Considerable age
A 25-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
£3,050
24-month median
£3,600
24-month high
£11,500
24-month low
£1,950
Estimated value · likely range
£2,806–£3,294 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer · whisky.auction · Bonhams
Cross-house median
£3,600
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 4 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 18 | £5,600 | £4,900 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 6 | £2,900 | £3,200 |
| whisky.auction | 2 | £3,600 | £3,850 |
| Bonhams | 1 | £3,200 | £3,200 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £3,050 | 2 |
| May 2026 | £3,600 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £3,200 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £3,200 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £3,600 | 2 |
| January 2026 | £3,400 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £4,800 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £5,600 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £5,400 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £5,800 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £7,250 | 2 |
| February 2023 | £8,000 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Yamazaki 25 Year Old at auction is £3,050. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,600, with a high of £11,500 and a low of £1,950. 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.
Yamazaki 25 Year Old is down 66.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 36.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Yamazaki 25 Year Old 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 £3,600 (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 Yamazaki 25 Year Old has moved down 66.1%, with a current median hammer price of £3,600. The bottle has been observed at auction across 29 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 £3,050, 24-month median £3,600 — 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 25 Year Old that hammers at £3,050 would cost the buyer approximately £3,843 all-in including buyer's premium.
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