latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
8
Houses
2
Last sold
81 days ago
Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Nikka aged 40 years. Based on 8 recorded auction lots across 4 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,950, with the most recent sale at £3,150. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,500 (low) to £3,150 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) is £2,898–£3,402 (±8% around the latest sale).
Nikka is a whisky distillery. Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as 80thanniversary, 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
£3,150
24-month median
£2,950
24-month high
£3,150
24-month low
£2,500
Estimated value · likely range
£2,898–£3,402 ±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
9 lots
Cadence
≈ every 41 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 9% of tracked bottles
Last seen
81 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Whisky Auctioneer
Cross-house median
£2,900
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 8 | £3,150 | £2,900 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 1 | £4,200 | £4,200 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £3,150 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £2,500 | 3 |
| April 2026 | £2,900 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £3,000 | 2 |
Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) appeared in 9 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 9% 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 Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) at auction is £3,150. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,950, with a high of £3,150 and a low of £2,500. 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 Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,500 to £3,150 (median £2,950).
Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) 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 £2,950 (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%.
Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) has appeared in 8 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,950. 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 £3,150, 24-month median £2,950 — 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 Nikka - 40 Year Old (80th Anniversary) that hammers at £3,150 would cost the buyer approximately £3,969 all-in including buyer's premium.
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