latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
20
Houses
2
Last sold
78 days ago
Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ardbeg. Based on 20 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £260, with the most recent sale at £420. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £170 (low) to £420 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) is £339–£501 (±19% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) is up 68%, with a 6-month trend of +61.5% (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.
Ardbeg is a whisky distillery. Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1990.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1990), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as airighbeistnam, 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.
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Latest sale
£420
24-month median
£260
24-month high
£420
24-month low
£170
Estimated value · likely range
£339–£501 ±19%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
8 lots
Cadence
≈ every 46 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 11% of tracked bottles
Last seen
78 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Bonhams
Cross-house median
£245
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 19 | £170 | £240 |
| Bonhams | 1 | £420 | £420 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £420 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £170 | 2 |
| March 2026 | £200 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £200 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £180 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £210 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £260 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £200 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £240 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £260 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £260 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £400 | 1 |
Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) appeared in 8 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 11% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) at auction is £420. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £260, with a high of £420 and a low of £170. 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.
Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) is up 68% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 61.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) 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 £260 (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 Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) has moved up 68%, with a current median hammer price of £260. The bottle has been observed at auction across 20 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 £420, 24-month median £260 — 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 Ardbeg - Airigh Nam Beist (1990) that hammers at £420 would cost the buyer approximately £529 all-in including buyer's premium.
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