GLENFARCLAS 1968 FAMILY CASK ED #1
Is it worth the price?
GLENFARCLAS 1968 FAMILY CASK ED #1 is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glenfarclas distillery, bottled at 38 years old. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 1 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €4,700.00, against a model fair price of around €1,684.24. That is 2.79× the model estimate — well above what its age, strength and house predict, a substantial 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. Of the 7 Glenfarclas bottlings priced here, this is the weakest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €4,700.00 |
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
- 5.00 / 5
- Age
- 38yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €1,684.24
- Actual price (median)
- €4,700.00
- Multiple
- 2.79×
- Verdict band
- brand premium (2.00× < … ≤ 4.00×)
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 (€0.14/cl × 70 cl)
- €9.80
- Maturation (38 × €1.20/year)
- €214.21
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.63
- Cost floor
- €364.58
- Process distinctnessdirect fire heating (paper); dunnage warehousing; large stills2 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity65.1% 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
- Reputation5.0/5 across 1 review1 / 3
- Quality score
- 12 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×2.00
- Intrinsic value
- €729.16
- Actual price (median)
- €4,700.00
- Multiple
- 6.45×
- Verdict band
- luxury 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 105 €63.25 · 0.46×
- 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×