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Glenfarclas 8 Year Old

£30

latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses

Rare at auction· 2 lots a year

Auction lots

12

Houses

2

Last sold

16 days ago

Glenfarclas 8 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenfarclas aged 8 years. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 11 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £33, with the most recent sale at £30. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £30 (low) to £45 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenfarclas 8 Year Old is £25–£35 (±15% around the latest sale).

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About Glenfarclas

Glenfarclas is a whisky distillery. Glenfarclas 8 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 8 years old.

What drives this bottle's value

Glenfarclas 8 Year Old is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Glenfarclas rather than by built-in rarity.

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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Glenfarclas
Expression
8 Year Old
Age
8 years
Bottle size
700ml

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Latest sale

£30

24-month median

£33

24-month high

£45

24-month low

£30

Estimated value · likely range

£25–£35 ±15%

Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.

Market presence

last 12 months

Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year

Seen at auction

2 lots

Cadence

≈ every 183 days

Houses

2

Activity rank

top 36% of tracked bottles

Last seen

16 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

Seen across auction houses

Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer

Cross-house median

£33

Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.

Auction housePrice pointsLatest hammerMedian
Scotch Whisky Auctions10£30£33
Whisky Hammer1£33£33
▼ 14.3%vs 6 months ago

Price history (monthly median)

£29£38£46Mar 16Jun 19Sept 20Jan 24Aug 25Jul 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
October 2026£301
July 2026£331
August 2025£301
January 2024£451
April 2021£451
September 2020£401
July 2019£351
June 2019£302
June 2016£301
April 2016£401
March 2016£301

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Glenfarclas 8 Year Old at auction?

Glenfarclas 8 Year Old 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 36% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of Glenfarclas 8 Year Old?

The latest hammer price for Glenfarclas 8 Year Old at auction is £30. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £33, with a high of £45 and a low of £30. 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.

How much has Glenfarclas 8 Year Old changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Glenfarclas 8 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £30 to £45 (median £33).

Where can I sell Glenfarclas 8 Year Old?

Glenfarclas 8 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 £33 (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%.

Is Glenfarclas 8 Year Old a good investment?

Glenfarclas 8 Year Old has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £33. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Glenfarclas 8 Year Old?

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 £30, 24-month median £33 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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 8 Year Old that hammers at £30 would cost the buyer approximately £38 all-in including buyer's premium.

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