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Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice

£110

latest hammer price

Rare at auction· 2 lots a year

Auction lots

2

Houses

1

Last sold

18 days ago

Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice is a collectable Scotch whisky from Speyside aged 29 years. Based on 2 recorded auction lots across 2 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £120, with the most recent sale at £110. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £110 (low) to £130 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice is £101–£119 8% around the latest sale).

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About Speyside

Speyside names a Scotch whisky region — Speyside — rather than a single distillery: this is an undisclosed-distillery bottling bottled by cadenhead that discloses only its region of origin. Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice is an age-stated bottling at 29 years old, distilled in 1997.

What drives this bottle's value

  • Single vintage

    Distilled in a single year (1997), so the available batch is inherently finite.

  • Considerable age

    A 29-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.

  • Independent bottling

    An independent bottling by cadenhead, 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
Speyside
Age
29 years
Vintage
1997
Bottler
Cadenhead's
Bottle size
700ml

Latest sale

£110

24-month median

£120

24-month high

£130

24-month low

£110

Estimated value · likely range

£101–£119 ±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.

Market presence

last 12 months

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

18 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

Price history (monthly median)

£107£120£134Jul 26Aug 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
August 2026£1101
July 2026£1301

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice at auction?

Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice 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 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice?

The latest hammer price for Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice at auction is £110. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £120, with a high of £130 and a low of £110. 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 Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £110 to £130 (median £120).

Where can I sell Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice?

Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice 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 £120 (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 Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice a good investment?

Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice has appeared in 2 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £120. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice?

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 £110, 24-month median £120 — 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 Speyside Blended Malt 1997 29 Year Old Cadenhead's Barrel Royale Grant's Choice that hammers at £110 would cost the buyer approximately £139 all-in including buyer's premium.

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