latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
98
Houses
2
Last sold
25 days ago
Glenfarclas 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenfarclas aged 40 years. Based on 98 recorded auction lots across 55 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £750, with the most recent sale at £675. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £480 (low) to £1,200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenfarclas 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition is £585–£765 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenfarclas 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition is down 20.6%, with a 6-month trend of -3.6% (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.
Glenfarclas is a whisky distillery. Glenfarclas 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition 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.
Named / limited release
Released as Glenfarclas 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
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
£675
24-month median
£750
24-month high
£1,200
24-month low
£480
Estimated value · likely range
£585–£765 ±13%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
8 lots
Cadence
≈ every 46 days
Trend
▼ 53% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 11% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£750
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 | 54 | £675 | £750 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £760 | £760 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £675 | 2 |
| July 2026 | £760 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £700 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £700 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £725 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £600 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £700 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £800 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £713 | 4 |
| December 2024 | £775 | 4 |
| November 2024 | £700 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £800 | 1 |
More from Glenfarclas
Glenfarclas 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition appeared in 8 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is down 53% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 11% 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 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition at auction is £675. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £750, with a high of £1,200 and a low of £480. 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 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition is down 20.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 3.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenfarclas 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition 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 £750 (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 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition has moved down 20.6%, with a current median hammer price of £750. The bottle has been observed at auction across 98 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 £675, 24-month median £750 — 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 40 Year Old Warehouse Edition that hammers at £675 would cost the buyer approximately £851 all-in including buyer's premium.
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