latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
11
Houses
2
Last sold
50 days ago
Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan. Based on 11 recorded auction lots across 11 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,600, with the most recent sale at £2,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,900 (low) to £3,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva is £2,192–£2,608 (±9% around the latest sale).
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1981.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as granreserva, 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
£2,400
24-month median
£2,600
24-month high
£3,400
24-month low
£1,900
Estimated value · likely range
£2,192–£2,608 ±9%
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 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
50 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer
Cross-house median
£2,600
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 | 8 | £2,800 | £2,700 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 3 | £2,400 | £2,500 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £2,400 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £2,500 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £2,600 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £2,800 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £3,400 | 1 |
| November 2020 | £3,400 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £3,000 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £2,500 | 1 |
| September 2019 | £2,600 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £2,200 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £1,900 | 1 |
Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva 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 28% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva at auction is £2,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,600, with a high of £3,400 and a low of £1,900. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £1,900 to £3,400 (median £2,600).
Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva 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 £2,600 (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%.
Macallan 1981 Gran Reserva has appeared in 11 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,600. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £2,400, 24-month median £2,600 — 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 1981 Gran Reserva that hammers at £2,400 would cost the buyer approximately £3,024 all-in including buyer's premium.
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