latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
101
Houses
2
Last sold
40 days ago
Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ardmore aged 12 years. Based on 101 recorded auction lots across 41 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £85, with the most recent sale at £80. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £63 (low) to £160 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary is £72–£88 (±10% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary is down 15.8%, with a 6-month trend of -5.9% (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.
Ardmore is a whisky distillery. Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old, distilled in 1986.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1986), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as 100thanniversary, 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
£80
24-month median
£85
24-month high
£160
24-month low
£63
Estimated value · likely range
£72–£88 ±10%
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
12 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Trend
▼ 29% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 7% of tracked bottles
Last seen
40 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£85
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 | 75 | £65 | £85 |
| Whisky Hammer | 4 | £95 | £88 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £80 | 2 |
| March 2026 | £85 | 3 |
| February 2026 | £160 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £80 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £70 | 3 |
| August 2025 | £100 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £85 | 4 |
| May 2025 | £80 | 2 |
| March 2025 | £90 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £90 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £90 | 4 |
| September 2024 | £80 | 2 |
Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary appeared in 12 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is down 29% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 7% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary at auction is £80. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £85, with a high of £160 and a low of £63. 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.
Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary is down 15.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 5.9%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary 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 £85 (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 Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary has moved down 15.8%, with a current median hammer price of £85. The bottle has been observed at auction across 101 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 £85 — 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 Ardmore 1986 12 Year Old 100th Anniversary that hammers at £80 would cost the buyer approximately £101 all-in including buyer's premium.
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