latest hammer price
Auction lots
22
Houses
1
Last sold
506 days ago
Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society is a collectable Scotch whisky from Highland aged 30 years. Based on 22 recorded auction lots across 18 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £160, with the most recent sale at £120. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £120 (low) to £200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society is £110–£130 (±9% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society is down 25%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (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.
Highland names a Scotch whisky region — the Highlands — rather than a single distillery: this is an undisclosed-distillery bottling that discloses only its region of origin. Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1989.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), 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.
Named / limited release
Released as Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society, 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
£120
24-month median
£160
24-month high
£200
24-month low
£120
Estimated value · likely range
£110–£130 ±9%
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
0 lots
Last seen
506 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | £120 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £150 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £160 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £160 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £160 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £170 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £120 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £180 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £200 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £150 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £170 | 2 |
| October 2021 | £140 | 1 |
More from Highland
Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society appeared in 0 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market).
The latest hammer price for Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society at auction is £120. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £160, with a high of £200 and a low of £120. 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.
Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society is down 25% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society 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 £160 (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 Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society has moved down 25%, with a current median hammer price of £160. The bottle has been observed at auction across 22 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 £120, 24-month median £160 — 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 Highland 1989 30 Year Old The Wine Society that hammers at £120 would cost the buyer approximately £151 all-in including buyer's premium.
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