Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 17 years. Based on 76 recorded auction lots across 43 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £240, with the most recent sale at £200. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £78 (low) to £340 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask is £184–£216 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask is down 16.7%, with a 6-month trend of -14.9% (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.
Balvenie is a whisky distillery. Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask is an age-stated bottling at 17 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as caskislay, 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
£200
24-month median
£240
24-month high
£340
24-month low
£78
Estimated value · likely range
£184–£216 ±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.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £200 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £340 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £320 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £280 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £280 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £235 | 2 |
| March 2022 | £240 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £220 | 1 |
| September 2021 | £230 | 2 |
| July 2021 | £250 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £240 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask at auction is £200. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £240, with a high of £340 and a low of £78. 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.
Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask is down 16.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 14.9%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask 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 £240 (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 Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask has moved down 16.7%, with a current median hammer price of £240. 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 £200, 24-month median £240 — 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 Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask that hammers at £200 would cost the buyer approximately £252 all-in including buyer's premium.
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