Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling is a collectable Scotch whisky from Lagavulin aged 38 years. Based on 5 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,400, with the most recent sale at £1,600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,400 (low) to £1,700 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling is £1,472–£1,728 (±8% around the latest sale).
Lagavulin is a whisky distillery. Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling is an age-stated bottling at 38 years old, distilled in 1979.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 38-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 115) 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
£1,600
24-month median
£1,400
24-month high
£1,700
24-month low
£1,400
Estimated value · likely range
£1,472–£1,728 ±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 | £1,600 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £1,400 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £1,400 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £1,400 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £1,700 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling at auction is £1,600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,400, with a high of £1,700 and a low of £1,400. 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 Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £1,400 to £1,700 (median £1,400).
Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling 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 £1,400 (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%.
Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling has appeared in 5 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,400. 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 £1,600, 24-month median £1,400 — 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 Lagavulin 1979 38 Year Old Single Cask #115 The Syndicate’s Bottling that hammers at £1,600 would cost the buyer approximately £2,016 all-in including buyer's premium.
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