latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
17
Houses
2
Last sold
130 days ago
Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £530, with the most recent sale at £600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £210 (low) to £670 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) is £549–£651 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) is up 5.3%, with a 6-month trend of +3.4% (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.
Balvenie is a whisky distillery. Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1989.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as portwood, 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.
Filter by source
Latest sale
£600
24-month median
£530
24-month high
£670
24-month low
£210
Estimated value · likely range
£549–£651 ±8%
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
10 lots
Cadence
≈ every 37 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 8% of tracked bottles
Last seen
130 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£520
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 | 20 | £420 | £510 |
| Whisky Hammer | 17 | £210 | £530 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £600 | 3 |
| February 2026 | £540 | 3 |
| November 2022 | £520 | 1 |
| October 2022 | £530 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £530 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £550 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £580 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £480 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £210 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £670 | 1 |
| September 2021 | £480 | 1 |
| August 2021 | £465 | 1 |
More from Balvenie
Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) appeared in 10 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 8% 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 Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) at auction is £600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £530, with a high of £670 and a low of £210. 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.
Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) is up 5.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 3.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) 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 £530 (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 Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) has moved up 5.3%, with a current median hammer price of £530. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £600, 24-month median £530 — 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 Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood) that hammers at £600 would cost the buyer approximately £756 all-in including buyer's premium.
Own a bottle of Balvenie - 1989 (Port Wood)?
Track it against live auction data and see your portfolio's real market value — free for up to 3 bottles.
Start tracking free →Own a different bottle? Get a free whisky valuation for any bottle — no signup, no card.