Aberlour 16 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Aberlour aged 16 years. Based on 68 recorded auction lots across 41 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £50, with the most recent sale at £80. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £38 (low) to £93 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Aberlour 16 Year Old is £71–£89 (±12% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Aberlour 16 Year Old is up 92%, with a 6-month trend of +54.8% (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.
Aberlour is a whisky distillery. Aberlour 16 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old.
Aberlour 16 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 Aberlour 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.
Latest sale
£80
24-month median
£50
24-month high
£93
24-month low
£38
Estimated value · likely range
£71–£89 ±12%
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 | £80 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £70 | 1 |
| September 2021 | £60 | 2 |
| July 2021 | £60 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £58 | 2 |
| January 2021 | £60 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £52 | 3 |
| September 2020 | £49 | 6 |
| August 2020 | £55 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £93 | 2 |
| October 2019 | £50 | 3 |
| August 2019 | £80 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for Aberlour 16 Year Old at auction is £80. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £50, with a high of £93 and a low of £38. 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.
Aberlour 16 Year Old is up 92% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 54.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Aberlour 16 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 £50 (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 Aberlour 16 Year Old has moved up 92%, with a current median hammer price of £50. The bottle has been observed at auction across 68 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 £80, 24-month median £50 — 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 Aberlour 16 Year Old that hammers at £80 would cost the buyer approximately £101 all-in including buyer's premium.
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