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Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch)

£80
9.4%vs 12 months ago

latest hammer price · blended across 3 auction houses

Regularly traded· 82 lots a year

Auction lots

607

Houses

3

Last sold

7 days ago

Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Craigellachie aged 17 years. Based on 607 recorded auction lots across 97 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £75, with the most recent sale at £80. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £57 (low) to £180 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) is £74–£86 8% around the latest sale).

Year-on-year, Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) is down 9.4%, with a 6-month trend of +3.2% (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.

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About Craigellachie

Craigellachie is a whisky distillery. Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) is an age-stated bottling at 17 years old.

What drives this bottle's value

Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Craigellachie rather than by built-in rarity.

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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Craigellachie
Expression
17 Year Old (Small Batch)
Age
17 years
Bottle size
700ml

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Latest sale

£80

24-month median

£75

24-month high

£180

24-month low

£57

Estimated value · likely range

£74–£86 ±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.

Market presence

last 12 months

Regularly tradedseveral lots most weeks

Seen at auction

82 lots

Cadence

≈ 2 per week

Trend

4% vs prior year

Houses

3

Activity rank

top 1% of tracked bottles

Last seen

7 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

Seen across auction houses

Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer · whisky.auction

Cross-house median

£75

Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 3 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.

Auction housePrice pointsLatest hammerMedian
Scotch Whisky Auctions194£85£75
Whisky Hammer15£70£75
whisky.auction1£80£80
3.2%vs 6 months ago
9.4%vs 12 months ago

Price history (monthly median)

£55£120£185Jul 15Mar 19Oct 20Jun 22Nov 23Apr 25Aug 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
August 2026£806
July 2026£766
June 2026£747
May 2026£715
April 2026£656
March 2026£7310
February 2026£788
January 2026£718
December 2025£786
November 2025£776
October 2025£908
September 2025£836

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) at auction?

Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) appeared in 82 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — regularly traded (several lots most weeks). That is up 4% on the previous year. It has traded at 3 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 1% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch)?

The latest hammer price for Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) at auction is £80. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £75, with a high of £180 and a low of £57. 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.

How much has Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) changed in value over the past year?

Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) is down 9.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 3.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.

Where can I sell Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch)?

Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) 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 £75 (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%.

Is Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) a good investment?

Over the past 12 months Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) has moved down 9.4%, with a current median hammer price of £75. The bottle has been observed at auction across 607 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.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch)?

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 £80, 24-month median £75 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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 Craigellachie 17 Year Old (Small Batch) that hammers at £80 would cost the buyer approximately £101 all-in including buyer's premium.

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