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Bennachie 17 Year Old

£30

latest hammer price

Rare at auction· 4 lots a year

Auction lots

14

Houses

1

Last sold

217 days ago

Bennachie 17 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bennachie aged 17 years. Based on 14 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £40, with the most recent sale at £30. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £30 (low) to £75 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bennachie 17 Year Old is £23–£38 25% around the latest sale).

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About Bennachie

Bennachie is a whisky distillery. Bennachie 17 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 17 years old.

What drives this bottle's value

Bennachie 17 Year Old is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Bennachie rather than by built-in rarity.

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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Bennachie
Age
17 years
Bottle size
700ml

Latest sale

£30

24-month median

£40

24-month high

£75

24-month low

£30

Estimated value · likely range

£23–£38 ±25%

Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.

Market presence

last 12 months

Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year

Seen at auction

4 lots

Cadence

≈ every 91 days

Houses

1

Activity rank

top 22% of tracked bottles

Last seen

217 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

53.8%vs 6 months ago

Price history (monthly median)

£29£53£77Mar 18Mar 19Feb 20Jan 21Sept 25

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
February 2026£302
September 2025£402
July 2021£352
January 2021£752
March 2020£501
February 2020£501
March 2019£652
April 2018£301
March 2018£301

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Bennachie 17 Year Old at auction?

Bennachie 17 Year Old appeared in 4 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 22% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of Bennachie 17 Year Old?

The latest hammer price for Bennachie 17 Year Old at auction is £30. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £40, with a high of £75 and a low of £30. 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.

How much has Bennachie 17 Year Old changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Bennachie 17 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £30 to £75 (median £40).

Where can I sell Bennachie 17 Year Old?

Bennachie 17 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 £40 (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%.

Is Bennachie 17 Year Old a good investment?

Bennachie 17 Year Old has appeared in 14 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £40. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Bennachie 17 Year Old?

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 £30, 24-month median £40 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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 Bennachie 17 Year Old that hammers at £30 would cost the buyer approximately £38 all-in including buyer's premium.

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