latest hammer price
Auction lots
19
Houses
1
Last sold
354 days ago
Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenmorangie aged 20 years. Based on 19 recorded auction lots across 18 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £710, with the most recent sale at £500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £500 (low) to £850 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish is £459–£541 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish is down 30.6%, with a 6-month trend of -5.7% (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.
Glenmorangie is a whisky distillery. Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish is an age-stated bottling at 20 years old, distilled in 1981.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 20-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish, 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.
Latest sale
£500
24-month median
£710
24-month high
£850
24-month low
£500
Estimated value · likely range
£459–£541 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
354 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £500 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £500 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £700 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £800 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £700 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £800 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £530 | 2 |
| October 2019 | £650 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £650 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £850 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £800 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £780 | 1 |
Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% 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 Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish at auction is £500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £710, with a high of £850 and a low of £500. 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.
Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish is down 30.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 5.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish 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 £710 (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 Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish has moved down 30.6%, with a current median hammer price of £710. The bottle has been observed at auction across 19 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 £500, 24-month median £710 — 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 Glenmorangie 1981 20 Year Old Sauternes Wood Finish that hammers at £500 would cost the buyer approximately £630 all-in including buyer's premium.
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