DALWHINNIE Distillers Edition
Is it worth the price?
DALWHINNIE Distillers Edition is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Dalwhinnie distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 2 reviews. It is tracked at 2 retailers, ranging from €79.03 to €79.90, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €51.40. That is 1.55× 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. Of the 3 Dalwhinnie bottlings priced here, this is the weakest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| thewhiskyshop | €79.03 |
| whisky.fr | €79.90 |
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
- 5.00 / 5
- Age
- No age statement
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €51.40
- Actual price (median)
- €79.47
- Multiple
- 1.55×
- 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 (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
- €6.92
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.08
- Cost floor
- €20.98
NAS treated as 5 years for maturation cost (paper convention).
- Process distinctnessno declared distinctive practices2 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity43.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed1 / 3
- OwnershipDiageo — independent or smaller group2 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1898 (128 years of operation)2 / 3
- Reputation5.0/5 across 2 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 9 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.75
- Intrinsic value
- €36.72
- Actual price (median)
- €79.47
- Multiple
- 2.16×
- Verdict band
- brand premium
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 1,205 mm at Dalwhinnie (0 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Dalwhinnie
- DALWHINNIE 15 Years Old €38.00 · 0.49×
- DALWHINNIE Winter Gold €63.00 · 1.16×