latest hammer price
Auction lots
14
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 27 years. Based on 14 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,400, with the most recent sale at £4,000. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,100 (low) to £4,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old is £3,529–£4,471 (±12% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old is up 90.5%, with a 6-month trend of +5.3% (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.
Laphroaig is a whisky distillery. Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 27 years old, distilled in 1980.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 27-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old, 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
£4,000
24-month median
£3,400
24-month high
£4,600
24-month low
£2,100
Estimated value · likely range
£3,529–£4,471 ±12%
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
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £4,000 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £4,000 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £4,600 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £4,400 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £3,200 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £3,000 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £3,800 | 2 |
| September 2019 | £3,400 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £3,400 | 1 |
| December 2018 | £3,600 | 1 |
| April 2018 | £2,600 | 1 |
| February 2018 | £3,300 | 1 |
More from Laphroaig
Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old 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 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old at auction is £4,000. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,400, with a high of £4,600 and a low of £2,100. 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.
Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old is up 90.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 5.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Laphroaig 1980 27 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 £3,400 (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 Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old has moved up 90.5%, with a current median hammer price of £3,400. The bottle has been observed at auction across 14 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 £4,000, 24-month median £3,400 — 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 Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old that hammers at £4,000 would cost the buyer approximately £5,040 all-in including buyer's premium.
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