latest hammer price
Auction lots
232
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
Ardbeg Very Young is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ardbeg. Based on 232 recorded auction lots across 118 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £283, with the most recent sale at £170. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £170 (low) to £650 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ardbeg Very Young is £143–£197 (±16% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Ardbeg Very Young is down 43.3%, with a 6-month trend of -26.1% (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.
Ardbeg is a whisky distillery. Ardbeg Very Young is a no-age-statement bottling.
Named / limited release
Released as veryyoung, 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
£170
24-month median
£283
24-month high
£650
24-month low
£170
Estimated value · likely range
£143–£197 ±16%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
5 lots
Cadence
≈ every 73 days
Trend
▼ 29% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £170 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £200 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £280 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £210 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £225 | 2 |
| May 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £260 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £210 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £260 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £270 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £250 | 1 |
Ardbeg Very Young appeared in 5 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 29% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 17% 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 Very Young at auction is £170. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £283, with a high of £650 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 Very Young is down 43.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 26.1%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Ardbeg Very Young 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 £283 (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 Very Young has moved down 43.3%, with a current median hammer price of £283. The bottle has been observed at auction across 232 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 £170, 24-month median £283 — 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 Very Young that hammers at £170 would cost the buyer approximately £214 all-in including buyer's premium.
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