BUNNAHABHAIN 33 Years Old 1980 Joint Bottling The Whisky Agency TWA
Is it worth the price?
BUNNAHABHAIN 33 Years Old 1980 Joint Bottling The Whisky Agency TWA is an Islay single malt Scotch from the Bunnahabhain distillery, bottled at 33 years old. Tasters score it 4.0 out of 5 across 1 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €490.00, against a model fair price of around €731.33. That is 0.67× 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 13 Bunnahabhain bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €490.00 |
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
- 4.00 / 5
- Age
- 33yo
- Region
- Islay
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €731.33
- Actual price (median)
- €490.00
- Multiple
- 0.67×
- 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 (€0.14/cl × 70 cl)
- €9.80
- Maturation (33 × €1.20/year)
- €146.83
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.15
- Cost floor
- €179.34
- Process distinctnesslightly peated for Islay; long fermentation1 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity45.8% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed1 / 3
- OwnershipDistell (Heineken) — production-led corporate1 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1881 (145 years of operation)2 / 3
- Reputation4.0/5 across 1 review1 / 3
- Quality score
- 6 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.50
- Intrinsic value
- €269.02
- Actual price (median)
- €490.00
- Multiple
- 1.82×
- Verdict band
- mild premium
Maturation context
Islay · rolling 12 months: 1,593 mm at Lingerton (46 km). Scotland W rolling 12-month rainfall2,451 mm, +33.70% vs 1995-2024 median.
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