Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail is a collectable Scotch whisky from Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail. Based on 20 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £340, with the most recent sale at £230. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £180 (low) to £600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail is £193–£267 (±16% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail is up 27.8%, with a 6-month trend of -23.3% (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.
Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail is a whisky distillery. Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1981.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Independent bottling
An independent bottling by gordonmacphail, typically produced in far smaller numbers than an official distillery release.
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
£230
24-month median
£340
24-month high
£600
24-month low
£180
Estimated value · likely range
£193–£267 ±16%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £340 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £320 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £400 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £600 | 1 |
| June 2021 | £340 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £300 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £390 | 2 |
| July 2019 | £300 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £260 | 1 |
| May 2019 | £420 | 2 |
| January 2019 | £400 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail at auction is £230. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £340, with a high of £600 and a low of £180. 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.
Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail is up 27.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 23.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail 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 £340 (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 Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail has moved up 27.8%, with a current median hammer price of £340. The bottle has been observed at auction across 20 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 £230, 24-month median £340 — 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 Lochside 1981 Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail that hammers at £230 would cost the buyer approximately £290 all-in including buyer's premium.
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