SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 30 years, bottled in 2019. Based on 27 recorded auction lots across 20 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,300, with the most recent sale at £800. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £800 (low) to £2,200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 is £692–£908 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 is down 63.6%, with a 6-month trend of -30.4% (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.
Macallan is a whisky distillery. SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1989, released in 2019.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 24x139) 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
£800
24-month median
£1,300
24-month high
£2,200
24-month low
£800
Estimated value · likely range
£692–£908 ±13%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £800 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £900 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £900 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £1,150 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £1,150 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £1,100 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £1,150 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £1,175 | 2 |
| May 2023 | £1,300 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £1,500 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £1,400 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £1,500 | 1 |
More from Macallan
The latest hammer price for SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 at auction is £800. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,300, with a high of £2,200 and a low of £800. 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 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 is down 63.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 30.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 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%.
Over the past 12 months SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 has moved down 63.6%, with a current median hammer price of £1,300. The bottle has been observed at auction across 27 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 £800, 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 SMWS 24.139 Macallan 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2019 that hammers at £800 would cost the buyer approximately £1,008 all-in including buyer's premium.
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