latest hammer price
Auction lots
42
Houses
1
Last sold
135 days ago
Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bunnahabhain aged 40 years. Based on 42 recorded auction lots across 37 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £900, with the most recent sale at £1,150. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £340 (low) to £1,700 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition is £754–£1,546 (±34% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition is down 4.2%, with a 6-month trend of -23.3% (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.
Bunnahabhain is a whisky distillery. Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old, distilled in 1963.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1963), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition, 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
£1,150
24-month median
£900
24-month high
£1,700
24-month low
£340
Estimated value · likely range
£754–£1,546 ±34%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 92% of tracked bottles
Last seen
135 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £1,150 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £1,200 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £1,700 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £1,150 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £1,700 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £1,150 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £1,500 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £1,300 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £1,300 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £1,200 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £1,400 | 1 |
| July 2020 | £1,400 | 1 |
More from Bunnahabhain
Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 92% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition at auction is £1,150. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £900, with a high of £1,700 and a low of £340. 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.
Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition is down 4.2% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 23.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition 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 £900 (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 Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition has moved down 4.2%, with a current median hammer price of £900. The bottle has been observed at auction across 42 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 £1,150, 24-month median £900 — 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 Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Limited Edition that hammers at £1,150 would cost the buyer approximately £1,449 all-in including buyer's premium.
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