Yamazaki - 12 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Yamazaki aged 12 years. Based on 23 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £120, with the most recent sale at £120. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £75 (low) to £420 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Yamazaki - 12 Year Old is £74–£166 (±38% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Yamazaki - 12 Year Old is up 39.1%, 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.
Yamazaki is a whisky distillery. Yamazaki - 12 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Yamazaki - 12 Year Old is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Yamazaki rather than by built-in rarity.
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.
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Latest sale
£120
24-month median
£120
24-month high
£420
24-month low
£75
Estimated value · likely range
£74–£166 ±38%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£98
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 17 | £120 | £120 |
| Whisky Hammer | 9 | £80 | £80 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | £120 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £280 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £280 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £230 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £420 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £126 | 5 |
| December 2021 | £120 | 2 |
| March 2021 | £160 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £100 | 1 |
| July 2020 | £120 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £95 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £80 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Yamazaki - 12 Year Old at auction is £120. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £120, with a high of £420 and a low of £75. 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.
Yamazaki - 12 Year Old is up 39.1% 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.
Yamazaki - 12 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 £120 (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 Yamazaki - 12 Year Old has moved up 39.1%, with a current median hammer price of £120. The bottle has been observed at auction across 23 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 £120 — 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 Yamazaki - 12 Year Old that hammers at £120 would cost the buyer approximately £151 all-in including buyer's premium.
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