latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
16
Houses
2
Last sold
102 days ago
Fettercairn - 40 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Fettercairn aged 40 years. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £790, with the most recent sale at £900. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £550 (low) to £2,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Fettercairn - 40 Year Old is £600–£1,200 (±33% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Fettercairn - 40 Year Old is up 15.4%, with a 6-month trend of +12.5% (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.
Fettercairn is a whisky distillery. Fettercairn - 40 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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.
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Latest sale
£900
24-month median
£790
24-month high
£2,400
24-month low
£550
Estimated value · likely range
£600–£1,200 ±33%
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
5 lots
Cadence
≈ every 73 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
102 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£1,000
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 15 | £900 | £780 |
| Whisky Hammer | 13 | £1,100 | £1,200 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | £900 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £1,300 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £2,300 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £1,500 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £2,400 | 1 |
| June 2021 | £950 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £800 | 1 |
| January 2019 | £700 | 1 |
| May 2018 | £780 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £550 | 3 |
| April 2017 | £600 | 1 |
| July 2016 | £580 | 1 |
Fettercairn - 40 Year Old appeared in 5 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 17% 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 Fettercairn - 40 Year Old at auction is £900. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £790, with a high of £2,400 and a low of £550. 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.
Fettercairn - 40 Year Old is up 15.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 12.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Fettercairn - 40 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 £790 (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 Fettercairn - 40 Year Old has moved up 15.4%, with a current median hammer price of £790. 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 £900, 24-month median £790 — 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 Fettercairn - 40 Year Old that hammers at £900 would cost the buyer approximately £1,134 all-in including buyer's premium.
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