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Glenfarclas / Speyside

GLENFARCLAS 1968 FAMILY CASK ED #1

57.32× luxury premium NAS rating 5.0/5 · n=1
cheapest
€4,700.00
whisky.fr
intrinsic
€82.00
N
1

Is it worth the price?

GLENFARCLAS 1968 FAMILY CASK ED #1 is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glenfarclas distillery, released without an age statement. 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 €82.00. That is 57.32× the model estimate — a price driven far more by the label than by what the model can explain. Of the 8 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.

Inputs
Rating
5.00 / 5
Age
No age statement
Region
Speyside
Distillery tier
Mid
Result
Predicted price
€82.00
Actual price (median)
€4,700.00
Multiple
57.32×
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 (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
€6.92
Cask premium (undeclared)
+€0.00
× ABV factor
×1.35
Cost floor
€22.57

NAS treated as 5 years for maturation cost (paper convention).

Quality grade (six 0–3 axes)
  • Process distinctness
    direct fire heating (paper); dunnage warehousing; large stills
    2 / 3
  • Cask provenance
    cask type not declared on bottle
    0 / 3
  • Bottling integrity
    65.1% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed
    3 / 3
  • Ownership
    J&G Grant (Grant family) — family multigenerational
    3 / 3
  • Heritage
    founded 1836 (190 years of operation)
    3 / 3
  • Reputation
    5.0/5 across 1 review
    1 / 3
Quality score
12 / 18
Quality multiplier
×2.00
Intrinsic and multiple
Intrinsic value
€45.14
Actual price (median)
€4,700.00
Multiple
104.11×
Verdict band
luxury premium

Maturation context

Speyside · rolling 12 months: 704 mm at Delnashaugh (4 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,235 mm, +30.70% vs 1995-2024 median.

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