latest hammer price
Auction lots
13
Houses
1
Last sold
299 days ago
Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenfarclas. Based on 13 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £170, with the most recent sale at £270. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £105 (low) to £360 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage is £162–£378 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage is up 157.1%, with a 6-month trend of +28.6% (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.
Glenfarclas is a whisky distillery. Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1989.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£270
24-month median
£170
24-month high
£360
24-month low
£105
Estimated value · likely range
£162–£378 ±40%
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
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
299 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | £270 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £300 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £280 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £360 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £150 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £170 | 1 |
| July 2020 | £210 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £130 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £140 | 1 |
| February 2018 | £210 | 1 |
| August 2017 | £105 | 1 |
| June 2017 | £120 | 1 |
Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage 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). That puts it in the top 39% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage at auction is £270. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £170, with a high of £360 and a low of £105. 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.
Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage is up 157.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 28.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage 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 £170 (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 Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage has moved up 157.1%, with a current median hammer price of £170. The bottle has been observed at auction across 13 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 £270, 24-month median £170 — 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 Glenfarclas 1989 Vintage that hammers at £270 would cost the buyer approximately £340 all-in including buyer's premium.
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