latest hammer price
Auction lots
23
Houses
1
Last sold
21 days ago
Ledaig 1996 Vintage is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ledaig. Based on 23 recorded auction lots across 20 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £98, with the most recent sale at £120. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £75 (low) to £220 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ledaig 1996 Vintage is £103–£137 (±14% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Ledaig 1996 Vintage is up 26.3%, with a 6-month trend of -36.8% (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.
Ledaig is a whisky distillery. Ledaig 1996 Vintage is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1996.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1996), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Ledaig 1996 Vintage, 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
£98
24-month high
£220
24-month low
£75
Estimated value · likely range
£103–£137 ±14%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Trend
▼ 33% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 36% of tracked bottles
Last seen
21 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £120 | 1 |
| September 2026 | £95 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £110 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £95 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £120 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £120 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £190 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £220 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £130 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £110 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £80 | 1 |
| May 2021 | £95 | 1 |
Ledaig 1996 Vintage appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 33% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 36% 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 1996 Vintage at auction is £120. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £98, with a high of £220 and a low of £75. 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 1996 Vintage is up 26.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 36.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Ledaig 1996 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 £98 (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 1996 Vintage has moved up 26.3%, with a current median hammer price of £98. The bottle has been observed at auction across 23 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 £98 — 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 1996 Vintage that hammers at £120 would cost the buyer approximately £151 all-in including buyer's premium.
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