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SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old

£70

latest hammer price

Rare at auction· 2 lots a year

Auction lots

13

Houses

1

Last sold

26 days ago

SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Clynelish aged 9 years. Based on 13 recorded auction lots across 12 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £75, with the most recent sale at £70. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £55 (low) to £170 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old is £62–£78 12% around the latest sale).

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About Clynelish

Clynelish is a whisky distillery. SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 9 years old, distilled in 2011.

What drives this bottle's value

  • Single vintage

    Distilled in a single year (2011), so the available batch is inherently finite.

  • Single cask

    A single-cask bottling (cask 26x166) 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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Clynelish
Age
9 years
Vintage
2011
Cask number
26x166
Bottler
SMWS
Bottle size
700ml

Latest sale

£70

24-month median

£75

24-month high

£170

24-month low

£55

Estimated value · likely range

£62–£78 ±12%

Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.

Market presence

last 12 months

Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year

Seen at auction

2 lots

Cadence

≈ every 183 days

Trend

33% vs prior year

Houses

1

Activity rank

top 39% of tracked bottles

Last seen

26 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

0%vs 6 months ago

Price history (monthly median)

£53£114£175May 21Mar 22Apr 23Feb 25Jul 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
August 2026£701
July 2026£851
April 2025£1701
February 2025£801
December 2024£951
April 2023£951
July 2022£701
March 2022£701
February 2022£801
July 2021£551
June 2021£601
May 2021£682

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old at auction?

SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old appeared in 2 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 down 33% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 39% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old?

The latest hammer price for SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old at auction is £70. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £75, with a high of £170 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.

How much has SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £55 to £170 (median £75).

Where can I sell SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old?

SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 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 £75 (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%.

Is SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old a good investment?

SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old has appeared in 13 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £75. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of SMWS 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old?

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 £70, 24-month median £75 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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 26.166 Clynelish 2011 9 Year Old that hammers at £70 would cost the buyer approximately £88 all-in including buyer's premium.

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