Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage is a collectable Scotch whisky from Old Pulteney. Based on 104 recorded auction lots across 51 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £233, with the most recent sale at £180. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £160 (low) to £330 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage is £162–£198 (±10% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage is down 30.8%, with a 6-month trend of -18.2% (down). 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.
Old Pulteney is a whisky distillery. Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1989.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£180
24-month median
£233
24-month high
£330
24-month low
£160
Estimated value · likely range
£162–£198 ±10%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | £180 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £190 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £220 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £160 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £230 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £220 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £250 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £180 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £180 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £170 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £170 | 2 |
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The latest hammer price for Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage at auction is £180. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £233, with a high of £330 and a low of £160. 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.
Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage is down 30.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 18.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage 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 £233 (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 Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage has moved down 30.8%, with a current median hammer price of £233. The bottle has been observed at auction across 104 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 £180, 24-month median £233 — 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 Old Pulteney 1989 Vintage that hammers at £180 would cost the buyer approximately £227 all-in including buyer's premium.
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