Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt (1980) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Yamazaki. Based on 4 recorded auction lots across 4 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,950, with the most recent sale at £3,300. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,500 (low) to £12,000 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt (1980) is £1,980–£4,620 (±40% around the latest sale).
Yamazaki is a whisky distillery. Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1980.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£3,300
24-month median
£3,950
24-month high
£12,000
24-month low
£2,500
Estimated value · likely range
£1,980–£4,620 ±40%
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
£3,950
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 | 2 | £2,500 | £3,550 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 2 | £3,300 | £7,650 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £3,300 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £12,000 | 1 |
| February 2017 | £2,500 | 1 |
| November 2016 | £4,600 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt (1980) at auction is £3,300. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,950, with a high of £12,000 and a low of £2,500. 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 Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt (1980), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,500 to £12,000 (median £3,950).
Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt (1980) 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 £3,950 (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%.
Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt (1980) has appeared in 4 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £3,950. 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 £3,300, 24-month median £3,950 — 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 Yamazaki 1980 Suntory Vintage Malt (1980) that hammers at £3,300 would cost the buyer approximately £4,158 all-in including buyer's premium.
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