Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old (1981) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora aged 40 years. Based on 1 recorded auction lots across 1 month of trading data, the current median hammer price is £5,500, with the most recent sale at £5,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £5,500 (low) to £5,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old (1981) is £4,675–£6,325 (±15% around the latest sale).
Brora is a whisky distillery. Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old, distilled in 1981.
Closed / ghost distillery
Brora was silent from 1983 until its 2021 revival, so whisky from the original distillery is finite and keenly collected.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 40-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.
Latest sale
£5,500
24-month median
£5,500
24-month high
£5,500
24-month low
£5,500
Estimated value · likely range
£4,675–£6,325 ±15%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £5,500 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old (1981) at auction is £5,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £5,500, with a high of £5,500 and a low of £5,500. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old (1981), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £5,500 to £5,500 (median £5,500).
Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old (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 £5,500 (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%.
Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old (1981) has appeared in 1 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £5,500. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £5,500, 24-month median £5,500 — 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 Brora 1981 Prima & Ultima 40 Year Old (1981) that hammers at £5,500 would cost the buyer approximately £6,930 all-in including buyer's premium.
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