latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
125 days ago
Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength is a collectable Scotch whisky from Caol Ila aged 25 years. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £260, with the most recent sale at £360. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £210 (low) to £460 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength is £277–£443 (±23% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength is up 44%, with a 6-month trend of -5.3% (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.
Caol Ila is a whisky distillery. Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old, distilled in 1979.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength, 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
£360
24-month median
£260
24-month high
£460
24-month low
£210
Estimated value · likely range
£277–£443 ±23%
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 97% of tracked bottles
Last seen
125 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £360 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £440 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £460 | 1 |
| January 2021 | £420 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £320 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £320 | 1 |
| May 2019 | £380 | 1 |
| May 2018 | £240 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £220 | 1 |
| July 2017 | £260 | 1 |
| June 2017 | £230 | 1 |
| April 2017 | £250 | 1 |
More from Caol Ila
Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength 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 97% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength at auction is £360. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £260, with a high of £460 and a low of £210. 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.
Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength is up 44% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 5.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength 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 £260 (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 Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength has moved up 44%, with a current median hammer price of £260. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £360, 24-month median £260 — 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 Caol Ila 1979 25 Year Old Cask Strength that hammers at £360 would cost the buyer approximately £454 all-in including buyer's premium.
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