GLEN ELGIN 12 Years Old
Is it worth the price?
GLEN ELGIN 12 Years Old is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glen Elgin distillery, bottled at 12 years old. Tasters score it 4.5 out of 5 across 13 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €62.00, against a model fair price of around €74.55. That is 0.83× the model estimate — almost exactly what its age, strength and house predict, with no meaningful brand premium. 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 3 Glen Elgin bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €62.00 |
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
- 4.54 / 5
- Age
- 12yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €74.55
- Actual price (median)
- €62.00
- Multiple
- 0.83×
- Verdict band
- fair value (0.80× < … ≤ 1.20×)
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
- ×1.08
- Cost floor
- €36.81
- 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
- Reputation4.5385/5 across 13 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 9 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.75
- Intrinsic value
- €64.42
- Actual price (median)
- €62.00
- Multiple
- 0.96×
- Verdict band
- fair value
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 691 mm at Blackhills No 2 (3 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Glen Elgin
- GLEN ELGIN Peat Finish Murray McDavid €39.90 · 0.52×
- GLEN ELGIN 14 Years Old 2008 ARTIST COLLECTIVE 6.0 €148.00 · 1.52×