GLENROTHES 11 Years Old Sherry Discovery Gordon & Macphail
Is it worth the price?
GLENROTHES 11 Years Old Sherry Discovery Gordon & Macphail is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glenrothes distillery, bottled at 11 years old. Tasters score it 4.5 out of 5 across 2 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €65.00, against a model fair price of around €90.18. That is 0.72× 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 Glenrothes bottlings priced here, this is the strongest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €65.00 |
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
- 4.50 / 5
- Age
- 11yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Premium Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €90.18
- Actual price (median)
- €65.00
- Multiple
- 0.72×
- 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 (11 × €1.20/year)
- €19.08
- Cask premium (ex sherry)
- +€8.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.08
- Cost floor
- €39.65
- Process distinctnessno declared distinctive practices2 / 3
- Cask provenanceex sherry1 / 3
- Bottling integrity43.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed1 / 3
- OwnershipEdrington / Berry Bros & Rudd partnership — independent or smaller group2 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1879 (147 years of operation)2 / 3
- Reputation4.5/5 across 2 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 10 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.83
- Intrinsic value
- €72.69
- Actual price (median)
- €65.00
- Multiple
- 0.89×
- Verdict band
- fair value
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 799 mm at Aberlour (5 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Glenrothes
- GLENROTHES 18 Years Old €165.03 · 1.30×