latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
11
Houses
2
Last sold
40 days ago
Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Lagavulin aged 26 years. Based on 11 recorded auction lots across 11 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,188, with the most recent sale at £780. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £580 (low) to £1,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release is £664–£896 (±15% around the latest sale).
Lagavulin is a whisky distillery. Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release is an age-stated bottling at 26 years old, distilled in 2021.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2021), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 26-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as jewellionspecial, 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
£780
24-month median
£1,188
24-month high
£1,400
24-month low
£580
Estimated value · likely range
£664–£896 ±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.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
11 lots
Cadence
≈ every 33 days
Trend
▲ 175% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 7% of tracked bottles
Last seen
40 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£900
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 | 13 | £800 | £850 |
| Whisky Hammer | 11 | £780 | £1,188 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £780 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £580 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £880 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £1,150 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £1,400 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £1,388 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £1,350 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £1,400 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £1,175 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £1,188 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £1,300 | 1 |
More from Lagavulin
Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release appeared in 11 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 175% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 7% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release at auction is £780. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,188, with a high of £1,400 and a low of £580. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £580 to £1,400 (median £1,188).
Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release 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 £1,188 (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%.
Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release has appeared in 11 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,188. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £780, 24-month median £1,188 — 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 Lagavulin 26 Year Old ‘The Lion’s Jewel’ 2021 Special Release that hammers at £780 would cost the buyer approximately £983 all-in including buyer's premium.
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