latest hammer price
Auction lots
36
Houses
1
Last sold
355 days ago
Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen aged 35 years, bottled in 1978. Based on 36 recorded auction lots across 29 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,800, with the most recent sale at £1,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,400 (low) to £2,300 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old is £1,283–£1,517 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old is down 22.2%, with a 6-month trend of -30% (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.
Port Ellen is a whisky distillery. Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 35 years old, released in 1978.
Closed / ghost distillery
Port Ellen closed in 1983; bottlings from its original era are finite and command a scarcity premium at auction.
Considerable age
A 35-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old, 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
£1,400
24-month median
£1,800
24-month high
£2,300
24-month low
£1,400
Estimated value · likely range
£1,283–£1,517 ±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.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Trend
▼ 67% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
355 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £1,400 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £1,800 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £2,000 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £1,500 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £1,900 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £1,500 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £2,000 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £1,900 | 1 |
| September 2020 | £2,000 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £1,600 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £1,900 | 1 |
| September 2019 | £2,300 | 2 |
More from Port Ellen
Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old 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 is down 67% on the previous year. 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 Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old at auction is £1,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,800, with a high of £2,300 and a low of £1,400. 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.
Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old is down 22.2% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 30%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old 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 £1,800 (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 Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old has moved down 22.2%, with a current median hammer price of £1,800. The bottle has been observed at auction across 36 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 £1,400, 24-month median £1,800 — 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 Port Ellen 14th Annual Release 1978 35 Year Old that hammers at £1,400 would cost the buyer approximately £1,764 all-in including buyer's premium.
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