Ardmore 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ardmore aged 20 years. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 10 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £80, with the most recent sale at £85. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £63 (low) to £85 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ardmore 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask is £76–£94 (±10% around the latest sale).
Ardmore is a whisky distillery. Ardmore 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask is an age-stated bottling at 20 years old, distilled in 1996.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1996), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 20-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as cask, 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
£85
24-month median
£80
24-month high
£85
24-month low
£63
Estimated value · likely range
£76–£94 ±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.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £85 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £85 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £85 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £75 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £65 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £80 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £80 | 2 |
| June 2019 | £63 | 2 |
| April 2019 | £80 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £65 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Ardmore 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask at auction is £85. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £80, with a high of £85 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Ardmore 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £63 to £85 (median £80).
Ardmore 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask 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 £80 (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%.
Ardmore 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £80. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £85, 24-month median £80 — 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 1996 20 Year Old Old Malt Cask that hammers at £85 would cost the buyer approximately £107 all-in including buyer's premium.
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