Balvenie 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 26 years. Based on 44 recorded auction lots across 28 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £500, with the most recent sale at £460. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £320 (low) to £750 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 is £423–£497 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balvenie 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 is down 19.8%, with a 6-month trend of -8% (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 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 is an age-stated bottling at 26 years old.
Considerable age
A 26-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 03) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£460
24-month median
£500
24-month high
£750
24-month low
£320
Estimated value · likely range
£423–£497 ±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 |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £460 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £500 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £420 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £750 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £480 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £500 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £500 | 2 |
| March 2024 | £550 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £500 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £650 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £700 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £520 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Balvenie 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 at auction is £460. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £500, with a high of £750 and a low of £320. 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 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 is down 19.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balvenie 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 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 £500 (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 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 has moved down 19.8%, with a current median hammer price of £500. The bottle has been observed at auction across 44 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 £460, 24-month median £500 — 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 26 Year Old A Day Of Dark Barley Story #03 that hammers at £460 would cost the buyer approximately £580 all-in including buyer's premium.
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