latest hammer price
Auction lots
22
Houses
1
Last sold
145 days ago
SMWS 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 21 years. Based on 22 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £347, with the most recent sale at £340. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £258 (low) to £480 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old is £301–£379 (±12% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old is up 13.3%, with a 6-month trend of -1.9% (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.
Laphroaig is a whisky distillery. SMWS 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 21 years old, distilled in 1998.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1998), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 21-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 29x271) 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
£340
24-month median
£347
24-month high
£480
24-month low
£258
Estimated value · likely range
£301–£379 ±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.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
145 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £340 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £340 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £380 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £440 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £360 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £400 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £347 | 3 |
| January 2022 | £400 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £440 | 2 |
| November 2021 | £480 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £320 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £320 | 1 |
More from Laphroaig
SMWS 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for SMWS 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old at auction is £340. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £347, with a high of £480 and a low of £258. 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 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old is up 13.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 1.9%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 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 £347 (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 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old has moved up 13.3%, with a current median hammer price of £347. The bottle has been observed at auction across 22 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 £340, 24-month median £347 — 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 29.271 Laphroaig 1998 21 Year Old that hammers at £340 would cost the buyer approximately £428 all-in including buyer's premium.
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