GLEN GARIOCH Founders Reserve 1797
Is it worth the price?
GLEN GARIOCH Founders Reserve 1797 is a Highland single malt Scotch from the Glen Garioch distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 4.7 out of 5 across 3 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €49.00, against a model fair price of around €66.56. That is 0.74× 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 2 Glen Garioch bottlings priced here, this is the strongest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €49.00 |
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
- 4.67 / 5
- Age
- No age statement
- Region
- Highland
- Distillery tier
- Budget Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €66.56
- Actual price (median)
- €49.00
- Multiple
- 0.74×
- 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 (€0.18/cl × 70 cl)
- €12.60
- Maturation (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
- €6.92
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.20
- Cost floor
- €23.42
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 integrity48.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed2 / 3
- OwnershipBeam Suntory — independent or smaller group2 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1797 (229 years of operation)3 / 3
- Reputation4.6667/5 across 3 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 11 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.92
- Intrinsic value
- €44.90
- Actual price (median)
- €49.00
- Multiple
- 1.09×
- Verdict band
- fair value
Maturation context
Highland · rolling 12 months: 907 mm at Inverurie (9 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Glen Garioch
- GLEN GARIOCH 12 Years Old €52.35 · 0.82×