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Glenmorangie / Highland

GLENMORANGIE A Tale of Spices

1.23× mild premium NAS rating 4.5/5 · n=2
cheapest
€78.45
topdrinks
intrinsic
€65.91
N
2

Is it worth the price?

GLENMORANGIE A Tale of Spices is a Highland single malt Scotch from the Glenmorangie distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 4.5 out of 5 across 2 reviews. It is tracked at 2 retailers, ranging from €78.45 to €83.68, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €65.91. That is 1.23× the model estimate — a mild premium over what its age, strength and house predict. 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 6 Glenmorangie bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.

Retailers tracked

Retailer Price
topdrinks €78.45
thewhiskyshop €83.68

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
4.50 / 5
Age
No age statement
Region
Highland
Distillery tier
Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
Result
Predicted price
€65.91
Actual price (median)
€81.07
Multiple
1.23×
Verdict band
mild premium (1.20× < … ≤ 2.00×)

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
×1.15
Cost floor
€19.23

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

Quality grade (six 0–3 axes)
  • Process distinctness
    tall stills (industry-tallest); signature design
    1 / 3
  • Cask provenance
    cask type not declared on bottle
    0 / 3
  • Bottling integrity
    46.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed
    2 / 3
  • Ownership
    LVMH — prestige-corporate
    0 / 3
  • Heritage
    founded 1843 (183 years of operation)
    3 / 3
  • Reputation
    4.5/5 across 2 reviews
    2 / 3
Quality score
8 / 18
Quality multiplier
×1.67
Intrinsic and multiple
Intrinsic value
€32.05
Actual price (median)
€81.07
Multiple
2.53×
Verdict band
brand premium

Maturation context

Highland · rolling 12 months: 759 mm at Milton of Evelix TBR (7 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.

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