latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
14
Houses
2
Last sold
81 days ago
Macallan Cask 888 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan. Based on 14 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,250, with the most recent sale at £3,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,000 (low) to £9,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan Cask 888 is £3,110–£3,890 (±11% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macallan Cask 888 is up 16.7%, with a 6-month trend of +9.4% (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 Cask 888 is a no-age-statement bottling.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 888) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£3,500
24-month median
£3,250
24-month high
£9,500
24-month low
£2,000
Estimated value · likely range
£3,110–£3,890 ±11%
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
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
81 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer
Cross-house median
£3,250
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 | 13 | £4,800 | £3,200 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 1 | £3,500 | £3,500 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £3,500 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £4,800 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £9,500 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £2,800 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £2,000 | 1 |
| May 2019 | £3,600 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £3,200 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £3,500 | 1 |
| January 2017 | £2,400 | 1 |
| December 2016 | £2,600 | 1 |
| September 2016 | £3,300 | 1 |
| August 2016 | £3,000 | 1 |
More from Macallan
Macallan Cask 888 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). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 39% 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 Cask 888 at auction is £3,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,250, with a high of £9,500 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 Cask 888 is up 16.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 9.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macallan Cask 888 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 £3,250 (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 Cask 888 has moved up 16.7%, with a current median hammer price of £3,250. The bottle has been observed at auction across 14 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 £3,500, 24-month median £3,250 — 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 Cask 888 that hammers at £3,500 would cost the buyer approximately £4,410 all-in including buyer's premium.
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