latest hammer price
Auction lots
13
Houses
1
Last sold
3 days ago
Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bunnahabhain aged 36 years. Based on 13 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,200, with the most recent sale at £1,150. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,050 (low) to £1,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish is £1,058–£1,242 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish is down 4.2%, 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.
Bunnahabhain is a whisky distillery. Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish is an age-stated bottling at 36 years old, distilled in 1980.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 36-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish, 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
£1,200
24-month high
£1,500
24-month low
£1,050
Estimated value · likely range
£1,058–£1,242 ±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.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 38% of tracked bottles
Last seen
3 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £1,150 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £1,200 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £1,200 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £1,500 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £1,150 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £1,100 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £1,150 | 1 |
| May 2021 | £1,150 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £1,300 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £1,300 | 1 |
| September 2019 | £1,050 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £1,400 | 1 |
More from Bunnahabhain
Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish appeared in 2 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 38% by auction activity among the 31,146 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish at auction is £1,150. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,200, with a high of £1,500 and a low of £1,050. 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 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish is down 4.2% 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.
Bunnahabhain 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish 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 £1,200 (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 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish has moved down 4.2%, with a current median hammer price of £1,200. The bottle has been observed at auction across 13 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 £1,200 — 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 1980 36 Year Old Canasta Cask Finish that hammers at £1,150 would cost the buyer approximately £1,449 all-in including buyer's premium.
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