latest hammer price
Auction lots
76
Houses
1
Last sold
11 days ago
Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Suntory. Based on 76 recorded auction lots across 20 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £105, with the most recent sale at £90. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £70 (low) to £200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 is £83–£97 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 is down 28.9%, 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.
Suntory is a whisky distillery. Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1981.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£90
24-month median
£105
24-month high
£200
24-month low
£70
Estimated value · likely range
£83–£97 ±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.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
24 lots
Cadence
≈ 2 per month
Trend
▼ 45% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 3% of tracked bottles
Last seen
11 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £90 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £100 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £90 | 4 |
| February 2026 | £80 | 2 |
| January 2026 | £80 | 6 |
| November 2025 | £105 | 8 |
| September 2025 | £90 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £103 | 6 |
| May 2025 | £70 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £93 | 4 |
| February 2025 | £115 | 4 |
| January 2025 | £148 | 8 |
Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 appeared in 24 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is down 45% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 3% 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 Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 at auction is £90. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £105, with a high of £200 and a low of £70. 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.
Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 is down 28.9% 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.
Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 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 £105 (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 Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 has moved down 28.9%, with a current median hammer price of £105. The bottle has been observed at auction across 76 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 £90, 24-month median £105 — 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 Suntory Whisky Portopia 1981 that hammers at £90 would cost the buyer approximately £113 all-in including buyer's premium.
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