Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Clynelish aged 12 years. Based on 13 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £75, with the most recent sale at £75. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £60 (low) to £130 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release is £68–£83 (±10% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release is up 15.4%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (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.
Clynelish is a whisky distillery. Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old, distilled in 2009.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2009), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as classicfriends, 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
£75
24-month median
£75
24-month high
£130
24-month low
£60
Estimated value · likely range
£68–£83 ±10%
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 | £75 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £95 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £130 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £90 | 1 |
| September 2020 | £80 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £80 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £75 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £65 | 1 |
| January 2019 | £65 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £70 | 1 |
| September 2018 | £60 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £70 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release at auction is £75. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £75, with a high of £130 and a low of £60. 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.
Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release is up 15.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release 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 £75 (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 Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release has moved up 15.4%, with a current median hammer price of £75. The bottle has been observed at auction across 13 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 £75, 24-month median £75 — 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 Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends Of The Classic Malts 2009 Release that hammers at £75 would cost the buyer approximately £95 all-in including buyer's premium.
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