latest hammer price
Auction lots
58
Houses
1
Last sold
34 days ago
El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve is a collectable Scotch whisky from El Dorado aged 21 years. Based on 58 recorded auction lots across 18 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £60, with the most recent sale at £65. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £47 (low) to £70 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve is £58–£72 (±11% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve is up 39.3%, with a 6-month trend of +8.3% (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.
El Dorado is a whisky distillery. El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve is an age-stated bottling at 21 years old.
Age statement
A 21-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
£65
24-month median
£60
24-month high
£70
24-month low
£47
Estimated value · likely range
£58–£72 ±11%
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
6 lots
Cadence
≈ every 61 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 14% of tracked bottles
Last seen
34 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £65 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £70 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £70 | 4 |
| November 2024 | £55 | 2 |
| February 2024 | £70 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £57 | 12 |
| June 2023 | £60 | 2 |
| June 2022 | £55 | 2 |
| July 2021 | £65 | 2 |
| December 2020 | £60 | 2 |
| September 2020 | £65 | 2 |
| July 2020 | £70 | 2 |
El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve appeared in 6 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 14% 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 El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve at auction is £65. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £60, with a high of £70 and a low of £47. 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.
El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve is up 39.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 8.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve 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 El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve has moved up 39.3%, with a current median hammer price of £60. The bottle has been observed at auction across 58 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 £65, 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 El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve that hammers at £65 would cost the buyer approximately £82 all-in including buyer's premium.
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