latest hammer price
Auction lots
18
Houses
1
Last sold
354 days ago
Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen aged 30 years. Based on 18 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £800, with the most recent sale at £950. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £580 (low) to £1,150 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare is £802–£1,098 (±16% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare is up 63.8%, with a 6-month trend of +18.8% (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.
Port Ellen is a whisky distillery. Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1979.
Closed / ghost distillery
Port Ellen closed in 1983; bottlings from its original era are finite and command a scarcity premium at auction.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare, 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
£950
24-month median
£800
24-month high
£1,150
24-month low
£580
Estimated value · likely range
£802–£1,098 ±16%
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
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
354 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £950 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £1,100 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £1,000 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £1,150 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £1,050 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £700 | 1 |
| December 2018 | £800 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £800 | 1 |
| September 2018 | £750 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £900 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £920 | 1 |
| October 2017 | £600 | 1 |
More from Port Ellen
Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare 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 puts it in the top 98% 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 Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare at auction is £950. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £800, with a high of £1,150 and a low of £580. 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 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare is up 63.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 18.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare 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 £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 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare has moved up 63.8%, with a current median hammer price of £800. The bottle has been observed at auction across 18 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 £950, 24-month median £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 1979 30 Year Old Old & Rare that hammers at £950 would cost the buyer approximately £1,197 all-in including buyer's premium.
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