latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
16
Houses
2
Last sold
26 days ago
Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Talisker aged 30 years. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £420, with the most recent sale at £600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £270 (low) to £650 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) is £514–£686 (±14% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) is up 100%, with a 6-month trend of +30.4% (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.
Talisker is a whisky distillery. Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 2008.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2008), 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.
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.
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Latest sale
£600
24-month median
£420
24-month high
£650
24-month low
£270
Estimated value · likely range
£514–£686 ±14%
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
2
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£420
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 14 | £600 | £410 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £600 | £600 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £600 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £600 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £650 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £480 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £460 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £440 | 1 |
| January 2019 | £460 | 1 |
| December 2018 | £420 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £350 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £400 | 1 |
| March 2017 | £350 | 2 |
| November 2016 | £280 | 1 |
Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) 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). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. 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.
The latest hammer price for Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) at auction is £600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £420, with a high of £650 and a low of £270. 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.
Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) is up 100% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 30.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) 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 £420 (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 Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) has moved up 100%, with a current median hammer price of £420. The bottle has been observed at auction across 16 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 £600, 24-month median £420 — 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 Talisker - 30 Year Old (2008 Release) that hammers at £600 would cost the buyer approximately £756 all-in including buyer's premium.
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