latest hammer price
Auction lots
3
Houses
1
Last sold
326 days ago
Port Ellen 1983 35 Year Old XOP is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen aged 35 years. Based on 3 recorded auction lots across 3 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,300, with the most recent sale at £850. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £850 (low) to £1,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 1983 35 Year Old XOP is £605–£1,095 (±29% around the latest sale).
Port Ellen is a whisky distillery. Port Ellen 1983 35 Year Old XOP is an age-stated bottling at 35 years old, distilled in 1983.
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 (1983), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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 1983 35 Year Old XOP, 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
£850
24-month median
£1,300
24-month high
£1,600
24-month low
£850
Estimated value · likely range
£605–£1,095 ±29%
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
326 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £850 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £1,600 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £1,300 | 1 |
More from Port Ellen
Port Ellen 1983 35 Year Old XOP 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 1983 35 Year Old XOP at auction is £850. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,300, with a high of £1,600 and a low of £850. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Port Ellen 1983 35 Year Old XOP, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £850 to £1,600 (median £1,300).
Port Ellen 1983 35 Year Old XOP 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 £1,300 (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%.
Port Ellen 1983 35 Year Old XOP has appeared in 3 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,300. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £850, 24-month median £1,300 — 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 1983 35 Year Old XOP that hammers at £850 would cost the buyer approximately £1,071 all-in including buyer's premium.
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