Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan, bottled in 2018. Based on 4 recorded auction lots across 3 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £8,800, with the most recent sale at £6,600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £6,600 (low) to £10,200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018) is £5,250–£7,950 (±20% around the latest sale).
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018) is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1988, released in 2018.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1988), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 3890) 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
£6,600
24-month median
£8,800
24-month high
£10,200
24-month low
£6,600
Estimated value · likely range
£5,250–£7,950 ±20%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £6,600 | 2 |
| July 2022 | £10,200 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £8,800 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018) at auction is £6,600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £8,800, with a high of £10,200 and a low of £6,600. 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 Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £6,600 to £10,200 (median £8,800).
Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018) 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 £8,800 (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%.
Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018) has appeared in 4 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £8,800. 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 £6,600, 24-month median £8,800 — 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 Macallan - 1988 Exceptional Single Cask (#3890-09, 2018) that hammers at £6,600 would cost the buyer approximately £8,316 all-in including buyer's premium.
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