SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old aged 26 years. Based on 42 recorded auction lots across 28 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £648, with the most recent sale at £1,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £320 (low) to £3,100 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old is £840–£1,960 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old is up 112.1%, with a 6-month trend of -9.7% (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.
SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old is a whisky distillery. SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 26 years old, distilled in 1987.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1987), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 26-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 116x20) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
Independent bottling
An independent bottling by smws, typically produced in far smaller numbers than an official distillery release.
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
£1,400
24-month median
£648
24-month high
£3,100
24-month low
£320
Estimated value · likely range
£840–£1,960 ±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 |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £1,400 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £1,800 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £2,100 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £1,900 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £2,000 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £1,300 | 2 |
| January 2018 | £1,550 | 1 |
| August 2017 | £900 | 1 |
| June 2017 | £980 | 1 |
| March 2017 | £1,050 | 1 |
| February 2017 | £1,350 | 1 |
| December 2016 | £3,100 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old at auction is £1,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £648, with a high of £3,100 and a low of £320. 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.
SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old is up 112.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 9.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 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 £648 (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 SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old has moved up 112.1%, with a current median hammer price of £648. The bottle has been observed at auction across 42 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 £1,400, 24-month median £648 — 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 SMWS 116.20 Yoichi 1987 26 Year Old that hammers at £1,400 would cost the buyer approximately £1,764 all-in including buyer's premium.
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