latest hammer price
Auction lots
32
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Caol Ila aged 30 years, bottled in 2020. Based on 32 recorded auction lots across 23 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £460, with the most recent sale at £400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £340 (low) to £550 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 is £365–£435 (±9% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 is down 20%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (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.
Caol Ila is a whisky distillery. Caol Ila SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1989, released in 2020.
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.
Named / limited release
Released as SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020, 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
£400
24-month median
£460
24-month high
£550
24-month low
£340
Estimated value · likely range
£365–£435 ±9%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £400 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £340 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £400 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £400 | 2 |
| July 2023 | £420 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £400 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £400 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £420 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £460 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £460 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £460 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £460 | 1 |
More from Caol Ila
SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 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 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.
The latest hammer price for SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 at auction is £400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £460, with a high of £550 and a low of £340. 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 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 is down 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 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 £460 (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 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 has moved down 20%, with a current median hammer price of £460. The bottle has been observed at auction across 32 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 £400, 24-month median £460 — 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 53.322 Caol Ila 1989 30 Year Old Vaults Collection 2020 that hammers at £400 would cost the buyer approximately £504 all-in including buyer's premium.
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