latest hammer price
Auction lots
16
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
Port Ellen 1982 19 Year Old Provenance is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen aged 19 years. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £370, with the most recent sale at £440. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £230 (low) to £580 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 1982 19 Year Old Provenance is £354–£526 (±20% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Port Ellen 1982 19 Year Old Provenance is up 63%, with a 6-month trend of +51.7% (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 1982 19 Year Old Provenance is an age-stated bottling at 19 years old, distilled in 1982.
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 (1982), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 19-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as Port Ellen 1982 19 Year Old Provenance, 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
£440
24-month median
£370
24-month high
£580
24-month low
£230
Estimated value · likely range
£354–£526 ±20%
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
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £440 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £500 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £580 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £450 | 2 |
| January 2023 | £460 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £460 | 1 |
| October 2017 | £290 | 1 |
| May 2017 | £330 | 1 |
| February 2017 | £370 | 1 |
| September 2016 | £330 | 1 |
| July 2016 | £360 | 1 |
| October 2015 | £420 | 1 |
More from Port Ellen
Port Ellen 1982 19 Year Old Provenance 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 1982 19 Year Old Provenance at auction is £440. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £370, with a high of £580 and a low of £230. 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 1982 19 Year Old Provenance is up 63% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 51.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Port Ellen 1982 19 Year Old Provenance 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 £370 (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 1982 19 Year Old Provenance has moved up 63%, with a current median hammer price of £370. The bottle has been observed at auction across 16 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 £440, 24-month median £370 — 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 1982 19 Year Old Provenance that hammers at £440 would cost the buyer approximately £554 all-in including buyer's premium.
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