Is it worth the price?
BENRIACH 12 Years Old The Twelve is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the BenRiach distillery, bottled at 12 years old. Tasters score it 4.8 out of 5 across 12 reviews. It is tracked at 2 retailers, ranging from €52.50 to €53.90, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €78.55. That is 0.68× the model estimate — well below what its age, strength and house predict, and one of the clearer value picks in the data. 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 |
|---|---|
| whiskylodge | €52.50 |
| whisky.fr | €53.90 |
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
- 4.83 / 5
- Age
- 12yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €78.55
- Actual price (median)
- €53.20
- Multiple
- 0.68×
- Verdict band
- hidden gem (≤ 0.80×)
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 (12 × €1.20/year)
- €21.64
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.15
- Cost floor
- €39.38
- 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 integrity46.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed2 / 3
- OwnershipBrown-Forman — production-led corporate1 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1898 (128 years of operation); closed 1900-1965 and 2002-20042 / 3
- Reputation4.8333/5 across 12 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 9 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.75
- Intrinsic value
- €68.92
- Actual price (median)
- €53.20
- Multiple
- 0.77×
- 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.
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 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×
- BENRIACH 21 Years Old The Twenty One €190.00 · 0.88×