latest hammer price
Auction lots
16
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP is a collectable Scotch whisky from Caledonian aged 40 years. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £255, with the most recent sale at £270. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £200 (low) to £360 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP is £242–£298 (±10% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP is up 35%, with a 6-month trend of -6.9% (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.
Caledonian is a whisky distillery. Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old, distilled in 1976.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1976), 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 Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP, 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
£270
24-month median
£255
24-month high
£360
24-month low
£200
Estimated value · likely range
£242–£298 ±10%
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 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £270 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £300 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £340 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £260 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £240 | 1 |
| August 2020 | £240 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £290 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £300 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £360 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £250 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £250 | 1 |
| July 2018 | £200 | 1 |
More from Caledonian
Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP 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 98% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP at auction is £270. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £255, with a high of £360 and a low of £200. 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.
Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP is up 35% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 6.9%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP 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 £255 (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 Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP has moved up 35%, with a current median hammer price of £255. The bottle has been observed at auction across 16 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 £270, 24-month median £255 — 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 Caledonian 1976 40 Year Old XOP that hammers at £270 would cost the buyer approximately £340 all-in including buyer's premium.
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