Is it worth the price?
BENRIACH 10 Years Old The Original Ten is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the BenRiach distillery, bottled at 10 years old. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 4 reviews. It is tracked at 3 retailers, ranging from €32.50 to €44.50, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €47.52. That is 0.93× the model estimate — almost exactly what its age, strength and house predict, with no meaningful brand premium. The estimate is fitted on age, bottling strength and the distillery's other prices; community ratings add no measurable signal to it, so this is not a quality judgement. Typical error is around ±65%, so read the verdict as indicative and trust it most at the extremes. It is one of 11 BenRiach bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| topdrinks | €32.50 |
| whiskylodge | €44.00 |
| whisky.fr | €44.50 |
How we got this number
The valuation model predicts a price from this bottling's inputs. The multiple is the actual market price divided by that prediction.
- Rating
- 5.00 / 5
- Age
- 10yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €47.52
- Actual price (median)
- €44.00
- Multiple
- 0.93×
- Verdict band
- fair value (0.80× < … ≤ 1.20×)
Methodology estimate
The deterministic model from methodology.md: production cost per litre × bottle size, plus maturation cost per year, plus a cask premium, times an ABV factor — then multiplied by a quality grade summed across six 0–3 axes.
- Production (€0.18/cl × 70 cl)
- €12.60
- Maturation (10 × €1.20/year)
- €16.69
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.08
- Cost floor
- €31.49
- Process distinctnessthree styles: unpeated, Highland-peated and triple distilled; four-water mash; Warehouse 13 dunnage (1898) still in use; closed 1900-1965 and 2002-20042 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity43.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed1 / 3
- OwnershipBrown-Forman — production-led corporate1 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1898 (128 years of operation); closed 1900-1965 and 2002-20042 / 3
- Reputation5.0/5 across 4 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 8 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.67
- Intrinsic value
- €52.48
- Actual price (median)
- €44.00
- Multiple
- 0.84×
- Verdict band
- fair value
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 691 mm at Blackhills No 2 (4 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from BenRiach
- BENRIACH 12 Years Old 2013 100 Proof #69 Signatory Vintage €65.90 · 0.54×
- BENRIACH Smoke Season €56.95 · 0.60×
- BENRIACH 12 Years Old The Twelve €52.50 · 0.68×
- BENRIACH 12 Years Old The Smoky Twelve €36.15 · 0.72×
- BENRIACH 16 Years Old The Sixteen €85.00 · 0.80×
- BENRIACH 10 Years Old The Smoky Ten €42.95 · 0.86×