latest hammer price
Auction lots
5
Houses
1
Last sold
327 days ago
Macallan 26 Year Old Darkness! is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 26 years. Based on 5 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £360, with the most recent sale at £250. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £250 (low) to £580 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 26 Year Old Darkness! is £208–£292 (±17% around the latest sale).
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 26 Year Old Darkness! is an age-stated bottling at 26 years old.
Considerable age
A 26-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Macallan 26 Year Old Darkness! 50cl, 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
£250
24-month median
£360
24-month high
£580
24-month low
£250
Estimated value · likely range
£208–£292 ±17%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
327 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £250 | 1 |
| November 2020 | £440 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £360 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £320 | 1 |
| July 2018 | £580 | 1 |
More from Macallan
Macallan 26 Year Old Darkness! appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Macallan 26 Year Old Darkness! at auction is £250. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £360, with a high of £580 and a low of £250. 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 26 Year Old Darkness!, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £250 to £580 (median £360).
Macallan 26 Year Old Darkness! 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 £360 (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 26 Year Old Darkness! has appeared in 5 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £360. 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 £250, 24-month median £360 — 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 26 Year Old Darkness! that hammers at £250 would cost the buyer approximately £315 all-in including buyer's premium.
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