Balvenie 40 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 40 years. Based on 38 recorded auction lots across 19 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,850, with the most recent sale at £3,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,400 (low) to £3,800 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie 40 Year Old is £2,893–£3,907 (±15% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balvenie 40 Year Old is up 36%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (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 40 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£3,400
24-month median
£2,850
24-month high
£3,800
24-month low
£2,400
Estimated value · likely range
£2,893–£3,907 ±15%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer
Cross-house median
£3,050
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 | 32 | £3,400 | £2,975 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 2 | £3,600 | £3,450 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £3,400 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £3,600 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £2,850 | 4 |
| December 2024 | £3,400 | 4 |
| April 2024 | £3,050 | 4 |
| May 2023 | £3,600 | 2 |
| August 2022 | £3,400 | 2 |
| July 2022 | £3,800 | 2 |
| May 2021 | £2,800 | 2 |
| October 2020 | £2,700 | 2 |
| March 2020 | £2,600 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £2,600 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Balvenie 40 Year Old at auction is £3,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,850, with a high of £3,800 and a low of £2,400. 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 40 Year Old is up 36% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balvenie 40 Year Old 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 £2,850 (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 40 Year Old has moved up 36%, with a current median hammer price of £2,850. The bottle has been observed at auction across 38 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 £3,400, 24-month median £2,850 — 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 40 Year Old that hammers at £3,400 would cost the buyer approximately £4,284 all-in including buyer's premium.
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