latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
263
Houses
2
Last sold
39 days ago
Macallan Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan, bottled in 2018. Based on 263 recorded auction lots across 73 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £220, with the most recent sale at £250. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £163 (low) to £430 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release is £221–£279 (±12% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macallan Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release is up 13.6%, with a 6-month trend of +28.2% (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 Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2018.
Named / limited release
Released as caskrareseq3, 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
£250
24-month median
£220
24-month high
£430
24-month low
£163
Estimated value · likely range
£221–£279 ±12%
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
15 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Trend
▼ 35% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 5% of tracked bottles
Last seen
39 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£220
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 | 110 | £190 | £210 |
| Whisky Hammer | 37 | £250 | £250 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £250 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £165 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £200 | 3 |
| April 2026 | £238 | 2 |
| March 2026 | £190 | 3 |
| January 2026 | £420 | 3 |
| November 2025 | £195 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £310 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £250 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £210 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £210 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £180 | 3 |
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Macallan Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release appeared in 15 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is down 35% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 5% 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 Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release at auction is £250. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £220, with a high of £430 and a low of £163. 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 Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release is up 13.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 28.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macallan Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release 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 £220 (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 Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release has moved up 13.6%, with a current median hammer price of £220. The bottle has been observed at auction across 263 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 £250, 24-month median £220 — 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 Rare Cask Batch #3 2018 Release that hammers at £250 would cost the buyer approximately £315 all-in including buyer's premium.
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