latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
23
Houses
2
Last sold
16 days ago
Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 25 years. Based on 23 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,700, with the most recent sale at £2,900. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,000 (low) to £3,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt is £2,668–£3,132 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt is up 0%, with a 6-month trend of +7.4% (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.
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old, distilled in 1968.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1968), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as anniversary, 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
£2,900
24-month median
£2,700
24-month high
£3,600
24-month low
£2,000
Estimated value · likely range
£2,668–£3,132 ±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.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
8 lots
Cadence
≈ every 46 days
Trend
▲ 100% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 9% of tracked bottles
Last seen
16 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer
Cross-house median
£2,700
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 | 21 | £2,900 | £2,700 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 1 | £3,000 | £3,000 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £2,900 | 1 |
| September 2026 | £2,600 | 1 |
| August 2026 | £2,500 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £2,700 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £2,000 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £2,200 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £2,700 | 2 |
| February 2025 | £2,400 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £2,500 | 2 |
| February 2023 | £3,200 | 2 |
| February 2021 | £3,600 | 2 |
| September 2020 | £2,900 | 4 |
More from Macallan
Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt appeared in 8 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 100% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 9% 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 Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt at auction is £2,900. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,700, with a high of £3,600 and a low of £2,000. 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.
Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt is up 0% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 7.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt 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 £2,700 (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 Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt has moved up 0%, with a current median hammer price of £2,700. 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 £2,900, 24-month median £2,700 — 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 Macallan 1968 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt that hammers at £2,900 would cost the buyer approximately £3,654 all-in including buyer's premium.
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