Is it worth the price?
BENRIACH 27 Years Old 1994 Smoky Oloroso Puncheon Single Cask 2059 is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the BenRiach distillery, bottled at 27 years old. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 1 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €685.00, against a model fair price of around €503.59. That is 1.36× the model estimate — a mild premium over what its age, strength and house predict. 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 |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €685.00 |
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
- 27yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €503.59
- Actual price (median)
- €685.00
- Multiple
- 1.36×
- Verdict band
- mild premium (1.20× < … ≤ 2.00×)
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 (27 × €1.20/year)
- €91.38
- Cask premium (ex sherry)
- +€8.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.33
- Cost floor
- €148.37
- 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 provenanceex sherry (single cask)3 / 3
- Bottling integrity53.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed3 / 3
- OwnershipBrown-Forman — production-led corporate1 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1898 (128 years of operation); closed 1900-1965 and 2002-20042 / 3
- Reputation5.0/5 across 1 review2 / 3
- Quality score
- 13 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×2.08
- Intrinsic value
- €309.11
- Actual price (median)
- €685.00
- Multiple
- 2.22×
- Verdict band
- brand premium
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×