Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen, bottled in 2008. Based on 54 recorded auction lots across 23 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,000, with the most recent sale at £3,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,775 (low) to £4,800 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 is £2,918–£3,882 (±14% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 is up 6.3%, with a 6-month trend of -5.6% (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.
Port Ellen is a whisky distillery. Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1981, released in 2008.
Closed / ghost distillery
Port Ellen closed in 1983; bottlings from its original era are finite and command a scarcity premium at auction.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1981), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as feisile, 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
£3,400
24-month median
£3,000
24-month high
£4,800
24-month low
£1,775
Estimated value · likely range
£2,918–£3,882 ±14%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £3,400 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £2,600 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £2,800 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £3,400 | 2 |
| September 2022 | £4,800 | 2 |
| April 2022 | £4,600 | 4 |
| October 2019 | £3,600 | 2 |
| November 2018 | £4,000 | 2 |
| May 2018 | £4,300 | 2 |
| June 2016 | £3,000 | 2 |
| December 2015 | £3,100 | 2 |
| October 2015 | £3,400 | 2 |
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The latest hammer price for Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 at auction is £3,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,000, with a high of £4,800 and a low of £1,775. 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.
Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 is up 6.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 5.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 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 £3,000 (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 Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 has moved up 6.3%, with a current median hammer price of £3,000. The bottle has been observed at auction across 54 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 £3,400, 24-month median £3,000 — 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 Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 that hammers at £3,400 would cost the buyer approximately £4,284 all-in including buyer's premium.
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