latest hammer price
Auction lots
29
Houses
1
Last sold
44 days ago
Ledaig 1979 Vintage is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ledaig. Based on 29 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £100, with the most recent sale at £160. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £40 (low) to £200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ledaig 1979 Vintage is £96–£224 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Ledaig 1979 Vintage is up 276.5%, with a 6-month trend of +28% (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.
Ledaig is a whisky distillery. Ledaig 1979 Vintage is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1979.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£160
24-month median
£100
24-month high
£200
24-month low
£40
Estimated value · likely range
£96–£224 ±40%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 25% of tracked bottles
Last seen
44 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £160 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £200 | 2 |
| December 2021 | £160 | 2 |
| July 2020 | £140 | 2 |
| January 2020 | £140 | 2 |
| October 2018 | £100 | 2 |
| June 2016 | £125 | 2 |
| December 2015 | £60 | 2 |
| July 2014 | £65 | 2 |
| August 2013 | £45 | 2 |
| July 2012 | £45 | 2 |
| June 2012 | £40 | 4 |
Ledaig 1979 Vintage appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 25% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Ledaig 1979 Vintage at auction is £160. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £100, with a high of £200 and a low of £40. 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.
Ledaig 1979 Vintage is up 276.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 28%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Ledaig 1979 Vintage 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 £100 (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 Ledaig 1979 Vintage has moved up 276.5%, with a current median hammer price of £100. The bottle has been observed at auction across 29 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 £160, 24-month median £100 — 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 Ledaig 1979 Vintage that hammers at £160 would cost the buyer approximately £202 all-in including buyer's premium.
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