latest hammer price
Auction lots
37
Houses
1
Last sold
yesterday
SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ardnamurchan aged 6 years. Based on 37 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £65, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £55 (low) to £85 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries is £55–£65 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries is down 14.3%, with a 6-month trend of -7.7% (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.
Ardnamurchan is a whisky distillery. SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries is an age-stated bottling at 6 years old.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 149x3) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
Independent bottling
An independent bottling by smws, typically produced in far smaller numbers than an official distillery release.
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
£60
24-month median
£65
24-month high
£85
24-month low
£55
Estimated value · likely range
£55–£65 ±8%
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
Trend
▲ 25% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
1 day ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £60 | 1 |
| January 2026 | £60 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £55 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £60 | 2 |
| November 2024 | £70 | 2 |
| July 2024 | £85 | 2 |
| February 2024 | £65 | 2 |
| January 2024 | £65 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £60 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £65 | 4 |
| October 2023 | £70 | 2 |
| August 2023 | £85 | 2 |
More from Ardnamurchan
SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries 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 is up 25% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 17% 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 SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £65, with a high of £85 and a low of £55. 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.
SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries is down 14.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 7.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries 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 £65 (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 SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries has moved down 14.3%, with a current median hammer price of £65. The bottle has been observed at auction across 37 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 £60, 24-month median £65 — 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 SMWS 149.3 Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old Celebrating New Distilleries that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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