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BenRiach / Speyside

BENRIACH 10 Years Old The Smoky Ten

0.86× fair value 10yo rating 4.3/5 · n=3
cheapest
€42.95
topdrinks
intrinsic
€54.70
N
3

Is it worth the price?

BENRIACH 10 Years Old The Smoky Ten is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the BenRiach distillery, bottled at 10 years old. Tasters score it 4.3 out of 5 across 3 reviews. It is tracked at 3 retailers, ranging from €42.95 to €49.50, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €54.70. That is 0.86× 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 €42.95
whiskylodge €47.00
whisky.fr €49.50

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.

Inputs
Rating
4.33 / 5
Age
10yo
Region
Speyside
Distillery tier
Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
Result
Predicted price
€54.70
Actual price (median)
€47.00
Multiple
0.86×
Verdict band
fair value (0.80× < … ≤ 1.20×)

See the regression's coefficients →

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.

Cost floor
Production (€0.18/cl × 70 cl)
€12.60
Maturation (10 × €1.20/year)
€16.69
Cask premium (undeclared)
+€0.00
× ABV factor
×1.15
Cost floor
€33.68
Quality grade (six 0–3 axes)
  • Process distinctness
    three styles: unpeated, Highland-peated and triple distilled; four-water mash; Warehouse 13 dunnage (1898) still in use; closed 1900-1965 and 2002-2004
    2 / 3
  • Cask provenance
    cask type not declared on bottle
    0 / 3
  • Bottling integrity
    46.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed
    2 / 3
  • Ownership
    Brown-Forman — production-led corporate
    1 / 3
  • Heritage
    founded 1898 (128 years of operation); closed 1900-1965 and 2002-2004
    2 / 3
  • Reputation
    4.3333/5 across 3 reviews
    2 / 3
Quality score
9 / 18
Quality multiplier
×1.75
Intrinsic and multiple
Intrinsic value
€58.95
Actual price (median)
€47.00
Multiple
0.80×
Verdict band
hidden gem

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.

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