Laphroaig 1985 30 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 30 years. Based on 63 recorded auction lots across 41 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £640, with the most recent sale at £480. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £480 (low) to £800 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Laphroaig 1985 30 Year Old is £442–£518 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Laphroaig 1985 30 Year Old is down 20%, with a 6-month trend of -40% (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.
Laphroaig is a whisky distillery. Laphroaig 1985 30 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1985.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1985), 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.
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
£480
24-month median
£640
24-month high
£800
24-month low
£480
Estimated value · likely range
£442–£518 ±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.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer · whisky.auction
Cross-house median
£633
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 3 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 44 | £480 | £637 |
| Whisky Hammer | 4 | £560 | £600 |
| whisky.auction | 1 | £550 | £550 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £480 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £650 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £520 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £750 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £560 | 2 |
| September 2023 | £725 | 2 |
| July 2023 | £800 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £700 | 2 |
| October 2022 | £700 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £750 | 1 |
| September 2021 | £700 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £650 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for Laphroaig 1985 30 Year Old at auction is £480. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £640, with a high of £800 and a low of £480. 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 1985 30 Year Old is down 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 40%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Laphroaig 1985 30 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 £640 (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 1985 30 Year Old has moved down 20%, with a current median hammer price of £640. The bottle has been observed at auction across 63 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 £480, 24-month median £640 — 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 1985 30 Year Old that hammers at £480 would cost the buyer approximately £605 all-in including buyer's premium.
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