GLEN MORAY Port Cask Finish
Is it worth the price?
GLEN MORAY Port Cask Finish is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glen Moray distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 4.4 out of 5 across 5 reviews. It is tracked at 2 retailers, ranging from €23.25 to €32.90, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €40.16. That is 0.70× 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 5 Glen Moray bottlings priced here, this is the strongest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| topdrinks | €23.25 |
| whisky.fr | €32.90 |
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
- 4.40 / 5
- Age
- No age statement
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Budget Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €40.16
- Actual price (median)
- €28.08
- Multiple
- 0.70×
- 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 (port)
- +€10.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.00
- Cost floor
- €26.72
NAS treated as 5 years for maturation cost (paper convention).
- Process distinctnessstandard production; no declared distinctive practices0 / 3
- Cask provenanceport1 / 3
- Bottling integrity40.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed0 / 3
- OwnershipLa Martiniquaise — independent or smaller group2 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1897 (129 years of operation)2 / 3
- Reputation4.4/5 across 5 reviews1 / 3
- Quality score
- 6 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.50
- Intrinsic value
- €40.08
- Actual price (median)
- €28.08
- Multiple
- 0.70×
- Verdict band
- hidden gem
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 631 mm at Pluscarden Abbey (7 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Glen Moray
- GLEN MORAY 18 Years Old €79.90 · 0.74×
- GLEN MORAY Chardonnay Cask Finish €23.95 · 0.76×
- GLEN MORAY 12 Years Old €29.40 · 0.86×
- GLEN MORAY 15 Years Old €43.95 · 0.95×