Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 12 years. Based on 112 recorded auction lots across 56 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £80, with the most recent sale at £120. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £48 (low) to £160 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 is £93–£147 (±23% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 is up 5.9%, with a 6-month trend of +29.7% (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.
Balvenie is a whisky distillery. Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as seq5signature, 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.
Latest sale
£120
24-month median
£80
24-month high
£160
24-month low
£48
Estimated value · likely range
£93–£147 ±23%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £120 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £75 | 2 |
| September 2024 | £105 | 2 |
| August 2024 | £105 | 2 |
| April 2024 | £70 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £120 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £93 | 2 |
| July 2023 | £85 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £78 | 2 |
| April 2023 | £95 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £130 | 2 |
| January 2023 | £110 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 at auction is £120. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £80, with a high of £160 and a low of £48. 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.
Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 is up 5.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 29.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 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 £80 (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 Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 has moved up 5.9%, with a current median hammer price of £80. The bottle has been observed at auction across 112 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 £80 — 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 Balvenie 12 Year Old Signature Batch #5 that hammers at £120 would cost the buyer approximately £151 all-in including buyer's premium.
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