latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
16
Houses
2
Last sold
16 days ago
Talisker - The Distillers Edition (1989) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Talisker, bottled in 1989. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £140, with the most recent sale at £160. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £60 (low) to £240 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Talisker - The Distillers Edition (1989) is £131–£189 (±18% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Talisker - The Distillers Edition (1989) is up 166.7%, with a 6-month trend of -33.3% (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.
Talisker is a whisky distillery. Talisker - The Distillers Edition (1989) is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 1989.
Named / limited release
Released as distillers, 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.
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Latest sale
£160
24-month median
£140
24-month high
£240
24-month low
£60
Estimated value · likely range
£131–£189 ±18%
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
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 19% of tracked bottles
Last seen
16 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£140
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 | £160 | £140 |
| Whisky Hammer | 2 | £150 | £125 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £160 | 1 |
| September 2026 | £150 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £150 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £100 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £140 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £140 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £240 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £140 | 1 |
| November 2020 | £130 | 1 |
| September 2020 | £190 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £100 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £110 | 1 |
Talisker - The Distillers Edition (1989) appeared in 4 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 19% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Talisker - The Distillers Edition (1989) at auction is £160. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £140, with a high of £240 and a low of £60. 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 - The Distillers Edition (1989) is up 166.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 33.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Talisker - The Distillers Edition (1989) 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 £140 (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 - The Distillers Edition (1989) has moved up 166.7%, with a current median hammer price of £140. 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 £160, 24-month median £140 — 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 - The Distillers Edition (1989) that hammers at £160 would cost the buyer approximately £202 all-in including buyer's premium.
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