latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
Port Ellen 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £40, with the most recent sale at £30. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £30 (low) to £45 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini is £26–£34 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Port Ellen 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini is down 14.3%, with a 6-month trend of -25% (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 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1980.
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 (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Port Ellen 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini 5cl, 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
£30
24-month median
£40
24-month high
£45
24-month low
£30
Estimated value · likely range
£26–£34 ±13%
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
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £30 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £45 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £45 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £45 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £45 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £40 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £40 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £33 | 2 |
| October 2022 | £40 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £40 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £35 | 1 |
| September 2018 | £30 | 1 |
More from Port Ellen
Port Ellen 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini 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 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Port Ellen 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini at auction is £30. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £40, with a high of £45 and a low of £30. 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 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini is down 14.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 25%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Port Ellen 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini 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 £40 (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 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini has moved down 14.3%, with a current median hammer price of £40. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £30, 24-month median £40 — 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 1980 Connoisseurs Choice Mini that hammers at £30 would cost the buyer approximately £38 all-in including buyer's premium.
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