latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
10
Houses
2
Last sold
14 days ago
Port Ellen 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen aged 29 years. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,100, with the most recent sale at £1,100. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £900 (low) to £2,250 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old is £763–£1,438 (±31% around the latest sale).
Port Ellen is a whisky distillery. Port Ellen 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 29 years old, distilled in 1978.
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 (1978), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 29-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as 8thannual, 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.
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Latest sale
£1,100
24-month median
£1,100
24-month high
£2,250
24-month low
£900
Estimated value · likely range
£763–£1,438 ±31%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
12 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Trend
▲ 9% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 7% of tracked bottles
Last seen
14 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£1,050
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 157 | £1,050 | £1,050 |
| Whisky Hammer | 10 | £1,100 | £1,100 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £1,100 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £1,000 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £940 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £1,000 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £900 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £1,675 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £1,150 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £2,000 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £2,250 | 1 |
More from Port Ellen
Port Ellen 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old appeared in 12 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 9% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 7% 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 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old at auction is £1,100. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,100, with a high of £2,250 and a low of £900. 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 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £900 to £2,250 (median £1,100).
Port Ellen 8th Annual Release 1978 29 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 £1,100 (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 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,100. 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 £1,100, 24-month median £1,100 — 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 8th Annual Release 1978 29 Year Old that hammers at £1,100 would cost the buyer approximately £1,386 all-in including buyer's premium.
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