Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glen Elgin aged 16 years. Based on 13 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £780, with the most recent sale at £640. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £580 (low) to £900 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is £546–£734 (±15% around the latest sale).
Glen Elgin is a whisky distillery. Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as drammanager, 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
£640
24-month median
£780
24-month high
£900
24-month low
£580
Estimated value · likely range
£546–£734 ±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 |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £640 | 3 |
| April 2026 | £720 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £900 | 2 |
| September 2024 | £580 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £650 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £780 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £900 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £800 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £880 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram) at auction is £640. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £780, with a high of £900 and a low of £580. 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 Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £580 to £900 (median £780).
Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram) 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 £780 (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%.
Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram) has appeared in 13 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £780. 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 £640, 24-month median £780 — 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 Glen Elgin - 16 Year Old (Manager's Dram) that hammers at £640 would cost the buyer approximately £806 all-in including buyer's premium.
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