latest hammer price
Auction lots
16
Houses
1
Last sold
10 days ago
Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Rhosdhu aged 26 years. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £140, with the most recent sale at £180. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £65 (low) to £190 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask is £132–£228 (±27% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask is up 71.4%, with a 6-month trend of +12.5% (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.
Rhosdhu is a whisky distillery. Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask is an age-stated bottling at 26 years old, distilled in 1979.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 26-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask, 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
£180
24-month median
£140
24-month high
£190
24-month low
£65
Estimated value · likely range
£132–£228 ±27%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
5 lots
Cadence
≈ every 73 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
10 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £180 | 1 |
| August 2026 | £140 | 3 |
| February 2026 | £190 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £180 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £180 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £130 | 2 |
| October 2023 | £160 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £170 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £110 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £65 | 1 |
| April 2018 | £90 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £100 | 1 |
Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask appeared in 5 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 17% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask at auction is £180. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £140, with a high of £190 and a low of £65. 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.
Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask is up 71.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 12.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask 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 £140 (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 Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask has moved up 71.4%, with a current median hammer price of £140. 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 £180, 24-month median £140 — 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 Rhosdhu 1979 26 Year Old First Cask that hammers at £180 would cost the buyer approximately £227 all-in including buyer's premium.
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