Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore, bottled in 1997. Based on 59 recorded auction lots across 39 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £230, with the most recent sale at £580. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £160 (low) to £850 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition is £348–£812 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition is up 52.6%, with a 6-month trend of +20.8% (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.
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 1997.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 23) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£580
24-month median
£230
24-month high
£850
24-month low
£160
Estimated value · likely range
£348–£812 ±40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £580 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £520 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £850 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £700 | 1 |
| October 2022 | £700 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £800 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £480 | 1 |
| January 2021 | £460 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £420 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £460 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £340 | 1 |
| January 2019 | £330 | 2 |
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The latest hammer price for Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition at auction is £580. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £230, with a high of £850 and a low of £160. 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.
Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition is up 52.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 20.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st 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 £230 (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 Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition has moved up 52.6%, with a current median hammer price of £230. The bottle has been observed at auction across 59 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 £580, 24-month median £230 — 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 Bowmore 1997 Hand Filled Cask #23 1st Edition that hammers at £580 would cost the buyer approximately £731 all-in including buyer's premium.
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