Port Ellen Whisky Prices & Investment Data
Port Ellen is one of the great cult names of whisky collecting — a closed-era Islay distillery whose surviving stock only grows scarcer. We track 3 Port Ellen bottlings with real auction data: average hammer prices, annualized returns, liquidity and transaction volume, refreshed monthly from four UK whisky auction houses.
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| # | Whisky | Last Price | Ann. Return | Liquidity | All-Time High | All-Time Low | Trades (6M) | Brand | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Port Ellen 9th Annual Release 1979 30 Year Old | £1,300 | +4.96% | 98 | £2,200 | £740 | 1 | Port Ellen | Full report → |
| 2 | Port Ellen 24 Year Old (3rd Annual 1979) | £883 | +1.70% | 92 | £2,100 | £640 | 0 | Port Ellen | Full report → |
| 3 | Port Ellen 24 Year Old (1978 2nd) | £876 | +1.55% | 86 | £2,100 | £650 | 0 | Port Ellen | Full report → |
About the Port Ellen distillery
Port Ellen distilled on Islay’s south coast from 1825 until its closure in 1983, and its remaining casks became one of whisky collecting’s defining cults: austere, smoky spirit that can never be replaced, released in tiny annual allocations through Diageo’s Special Releases and the Untold Stories series. Diageo reopened the rebuilt distillery in 2024, but the new spirit is decades from bottling — the closed-era stock this page tracks remains a strictly finite asset.
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