latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
17
Houses
2
Last sold
26 days ago
Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glen Garioch aged 30 years. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £420, with the most recent sale at £420. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £270 (low) to £500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) is £340–£500 (±19% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) is up 27.3%, with a 6-month trend of -4.5% (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.
Glen Garioch is a whisky distillery. Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1978.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1978), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-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
£420
24-month median
£420
24-month high
£500
24-month low
£270
Estimated value · likely range
£340–£500 ±19%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£420
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 | 17 | £420 | £420 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £450 | £450 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £420 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £320 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £480 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £500 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £480 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £420 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £440 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £320 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £480 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £420 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £340 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £500 | 1 |
Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) appeared in 2 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 39% 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 Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) at auction is £420. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £420, with a high of £500 and a low of £270. 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.
Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) is up 27.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 4.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) 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 £420 (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 Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) has moved up 27.3%, with a current median hammer price of £420. 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 £420, 24-month median £420 — 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 Glen Garioch 30 Year Old (1978) that hammers at £420 would cost the buyer approximately £529 all-in including buyer's premium.
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