GLENROTHES 18 Years Old
Is it worth the price?
GLENROTHES 18 Years Old is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glenrothes distillery, bottled at 18 years old. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 2 reviews. It is tracked at 3 retailers, ranging from €165.03 to €190.00, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €142.71. That is 1.30× 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. Of the 2 Glenrothes bottlings priced here, this is the weakest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| thewhiskyshop | €165.03 |
| whiskylodge | €185.00 |
| whisky.fr | €190.00 |
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
- 5.00 / 5
- Age
- 18yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Premium Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €142.71
- Actual price (median)
- €185.00
- Multiple
- 1.30×
- Verdict band
- mild premium (1.20× < … ≤ 2.00×)
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 (18 × €1.20/year)
- €41.35
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.08
- Cost floor
- €54.99
- Process distinctnessno declared distinctive practices2 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 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
- Reputation5.0/5 across 2 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 9 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.75
- Intrinsic value
- €96.23
- Actual price (median)
- €185.00
- Multiple
- 1.92×
- Verdict band
- mild premium
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 11 Years Old Sherry Discovery Gordon & Macphail €65.00 · 0.72×