GLENFARCLAS 105
Is it worth the price?
GLENFARCLAS 105 is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glenfarclas distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 4.6 out of 5 across 29 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €63.25, against a model fair price of around €136.13. That is 0.46× 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. Of the 7 Glenfarclas bottlings priced here, this is the strongest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| topdrinks | €63.25 |
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
- 4.59 / 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
- €136.13
- Actual price (median)
- €63.25
- Multiple
- 0.46×
- 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 (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
- €6.92
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.50
- Cost floor
- €25.08
NAS treated as 5 years for maturation cost (paper convention).
- Process distinctnessdirect fire heating (paper); dunnage warehousing; large stills2 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity60.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed3 / 3
- OwnershipJ&G Grant (Grant family) — family multigenerational3 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1836 (190 years of operation)3 / 3
- Reputation4.5862/5 across 29 reviews1 / 3
- Quality score
- 12 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×2.00
- Intrinsic value
- €50.16
- Actual price (median)
- €63.25
- Multiple
- 1.26×
- Verdict band
- mild premium
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 781 mm at Delnashaugh (4 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Glenfarclas
- GLENFARCLAS Heritage €39.90 · 0.75×
- GLENFARCLAS 15 Years Old €67.25 · 0.80×
- GLENFARCLAS 12 Years Old €45.25 · 0.97×
- GLENFARCLAS 10 Years Old €36.00 · 1.17×
- GLENFARCLAS 11 Years Old 2014 Sherry Cask Itinéraires €285.00 · 2.54×
- GLENFARCLAS 1968 FAMILY CASK ED #1 €4,700.00 · 2.79×