Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 40 years. Based on 51 recorded auction lots across 25 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £16,000, with the most recent sale at £11,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £8,740 (low) to £21,000 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection is £10,580–£12,420 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection is down 32.4%, with a 6-month trend of +15% (up). 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.
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as collectionred, 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.
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Latest sale
£11,500
24-month median
£16,000
24-month high
£21,000
24-month low
£8,740
Estimated value · likely range
£10,580–£12,420 ±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.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer
Cross-house median
£17,000
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 41 | £11,500 | £17,000 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 2 | £8,740 | £9,370 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £11,500 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £10,000 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £8,740 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £9,500 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £10,000 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £10,000 | 1 |
| January 2026 | £10,000 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £11,500 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £13,000 | 2 |
| September 2024 | £14,000 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £13,500 | 4 |
| October 2023 | £17,000 | 2 |
The latest hammer price for Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection at auction is £11,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £16,000, with a high of £21,000 and a low of £8,740. 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.
Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection is down 32.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 15%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection 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 £16,000 (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 Macallan 40 Year Old The Red Collection has moved down 32.4%, with a current median hammer price of £16,000. The bottle has been observed at auction across 51 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 £11,500, 24-month median £16,000 — 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 40 Year Old The Red Collection that hammers at £11,500 would cost the buyer approximately £14,490 all-in including buyer's premium.
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