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Yamazaki 25 Year Old

£3,400

latest hammer price · blended across 4 auction houses

Scarce at auction· 15 lots a year

Auction lots

6

Houses

4

Last sold

today

Yamazaki 25 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Yamazaki aged 25 years. Based on 6 recorded auction lots across 6 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,200, with the most recent sale at £3,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,900 (low) to £3,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Yamazaki 25 Year Old is £3,128–£3,672 8% around the latest sale).

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About Yamazaki

Yamazaki is a whisky distillery. Yamazaki 25 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old.

What drives this bottle's value

  • 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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Yamazaki
Expression
25 Year Old
Age
25 years
Bottle size
700ml

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Latest sale

£3,400

24-month median

£3,200

24-month high

£3,400

24-month low

£2,900

Estimated value · likely range

£3,128–£3,672 ±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.

Market presence

last 12 months

Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears

Seen at auction

15 lots

Cadence

≈ 1 per month

Trend

114% vs prior year

Houses

4

Activity rank

top 5% of tracked bottles

Last seen

today

Rarity signal: few lots but spread across 4 houses — sellers seek this bottle out.

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

Seen across auction houses

Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer · whisky.auction · Bonhams

Cross-house median

£4,200

Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 4 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.

Auction housePrice pointsLatest hammerMedian
Scotch Whisky Auctions96£4,600£4,300
Whisky Auctioneer6£3,400£3,200
whisky.auction2£3,600£3,850
Bonhams1£3,200£3,200

Price history (monthly median)

£2,813£3,158£3,502Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
July 2026£3,4001
June 2026£2,9001
April 2026£3,2001
March 2026£3,2001
February 2026£3,1001
January 2026£3,4001

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Yamazaki 25 Year Old at auction?

Yamazaki 25 Year Old appeared in 15 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 114% on the previous year. It has traded at 4 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 5% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of Yamazaki 25 Year Old?

The latest hammer price for Yamazaki 25 Year Old at auction is £3,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,200, with a high of £3,400 and a low of £2,900. 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.

How much has Yamazaki 25 Year Old changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Yamazaki 25 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,900 to £3,400 (median £3,200).

Where can I sell Yamazaki 25 Year Old?

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 £3,200 (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%.

Is Yamazaki 25 Year Old a good investment?

Yamazaki 25 Year Old has appeared in 6 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £3,200. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Yamazaki 25 Year Old?

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 £3,400, 24-month median £3,200 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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 £3,400 would cost the buyer approximately £4,284 all-in including buyer's premium.

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