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Dalmore / Highland

DALMORE 32 Years Old 1974

4.37× luxury premium 32yo rating 5.0/5 · n=1
cheapest
€5,000.00
whisky.fr
intrinsic
€1,143.36
N
1

Is it worth the price?

DALMORE 32 Years Old 1974 is a Highland single malt Scotch from the Dalmore distillery, bottled at 32 years old. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 1 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €5,000.00, against a model fair price of around €1,143.36. That is 4.37× the model estimate — a price driven far more by the label than by what the model can explain. 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 Dalmore bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.

Retailers tracked

Retailer Price
whisky.fr €5,000.00

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.

Inputs
Rating
5.00 / 5
Age
32yo
Region
Highland
Distillery tier
Premium Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
Result
Predicted price
€1,143.36
Actual price (median)
€5,000.00
Multiple
4.37×
Verdict band
luxury premium (> 4.00×)

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 (€0.14/cl × 70 cl)
€9.80
Maturation (32 × €1.20/year)
€135.93
Cask premium (undeclared)
+€0.00
× ABV factor
×1.30
Cost floor
€189.45
Quality grade (six 0–3 axes)
  • Process distinctness
    distinctive flat-top stills; extensive cask-finishing program
    1 / 3
  • Cask provenance
    cask type not declared on bottle
    0 / 3
  • Bottling integrity
    52.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed
    3 / 3
  • Ownership
    Whyte & Mackay (Emperador) — prestige-corporate
    0 / 3
  • Heritage
    founded 1839 (187 years of operation)
    3 / 3
  • Reputation
    5.0/5 across 1 review
    3 / 3
Quality score
10 / 18
Quality multiplier
×1.83
Intrinsic and multiple
Intrinsic value
€347.32
Actual price (median)
€5,000.00
Multiple
14.40×
Verdict band
luxury premium

The two models disagree sharply here. The deal-score regression learns from peer prices that age and brand command €1,143.36 (4.37× the listed price), while the cost-and-quality methodology floors the bottle at €347.32 (14.40×). The gap is the brand premium the market pays beyond what materials, maturation and bottling integrity alone can justify.

Maturation context

Highland · rolling 12 months: 663 mm at Urquhart (13 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.

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