Is it worth the price?
MACALLAN (The) Distil your World Paris is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Macallan distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 1 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €4,416.29, against a model fair price of around €114.86. That is 38.45× the model estimate — a price driven far more by the label than by what the model can explain. 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 9 Macallan bottlings priced here, this is the weakest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| thewhiskyshop | €4,416.29 |
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
- No age statement
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Premium Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €114.86
- Actual price (median)
- €4,416.29
- Multiple
- 38.45×
- Verdict band
- luxury premium (> 4.00×)
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 (€0.10/cl × 70 cl)
- €7.00
- Maturation (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
- €6.92
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.18
- Cost floor
- €16.43
NAS treated as 5 years for maturation cost (paper convention).
- Process distinctnesssmall stills (signature); curated sherry-cask program1 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity47.2% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed2 / 3
- OwnershipEdrington — prestige-corporate0 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1824 (202 years of operation)3 / 3
- Reputation5.0/5 across 1 review2 / 3
- Quality score
- 8 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.67
- Intrinsic value
- €27.38
- Actual price (median)
- €4,416.29
- Multiple
- 161.32×
- Verdict band
- luxury premium
The two models disagree sharply here. The deal-score regression learns from peer prices that age and brand command €114.86 (38.45× the listed price), while the cost-and-quality methodology floors the bottle at €27.38 (161.32×). The gap is the brand premium the market pays beyond what materials, maturation and bottling integrity alone can justify.
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 799 mm at Aberlour (1 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Macallan
- MACALLAN (The) 12 Years Old Double Cask €86.00 · 0.92×
- MACALLAN (The) Classic Cut Limited 2025 Edition €147.00 · 1.00×
- MACALLAN (The) 15 Years Old Double Cask €159.90 · 1.03×
- MACALLAN (The) 12 Years Old Sherry Oak €91.75 · 1.07×
- MACALLAN (The) A Night on Earth The First Light €115.06 · 1.15×
- MACALLAN (The) Harmony Collection IV Amber Meadow €231.00 · 2.35×