Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Springbank aged 16 years. Based on 9 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £630, with the most recent sale at £540. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £520 (low) to £1,000 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley) is £431–£649 (±20% around the latest sale).
Springbank is a whisky distillery. Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley) is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as barleylocal, 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
£540
24-month median
£630
24-month high
£1,000
24-month low
£520
Estimated value · likely range
£431–£649 ±20%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £540 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £540 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £520 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £540 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £840 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £1,000 | 1 |
| October 2021 | £780 | 1 |
| August 2021 | £720 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley) at auction is £540. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £630, with a high of £1,000 and a low of £520. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £520 to £1,000 (median £630).
Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley) 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 £630 (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%.
Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley) has appeared in 9 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £630. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £540, 24-month median £630 — 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 Springbank - 16 Year Old (Local Barley) that hammers at £540 would cost the buyer approximately £680 all-in including buyer's premium.
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