latest hammer price
Auction lots
39
Houses
1
Last sold
118 days ago
Cardhu 18 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Cardhu aged 18 years. Based on 39 recorded auction lots across 29 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £60, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £40 (low) to £90 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Cardhu 18 Year Old is £53–£68 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Cardhu 18 Year Old is down 14.3%, with a 6-month trend of -25% (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.
Cardhu is a whisky distillery. Cardhu 18 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 18 years old.
Age statement
A 18-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
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
£60
24-month median
£60
24-month high
£90
24-month low
£40
Estimated value · likely range
£53–£68 ±13%
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
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Trend
▼ 25% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
118 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £60 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £65 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £60 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £48 | 2 |
| May 2025 | £90 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £70 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £80 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £65 | 1 |
| October 2021 | £65 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £55 | 2 |
| February 2021 | £80 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £60 | 1 |
Cardhu 18 Year Old appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 25% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 28% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Cardhu 18 Year Old at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £60, with a high of £90 and a low of £40. 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.
Cardhu 18 Year Old is down 14.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 25%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Cardhu 18 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 £60 (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 Cardhu 18 Year Old has moved down 14.3%, with a current median hammer price of £60. The bottle has been observed at auction across 39 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 £60, 24-month median £60 — 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 Cardhu 18 Year Old that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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