Is it worth the price?
MORTLACH 12 Years Old The Wee Witchie is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Mortlach distillery, bottled at 12 years old. Tasters score it 4.0 out of 5 across 2 reviews. It is tracked at 2 retailers, ranging from €80.19 to €89.00, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €63.27. That is 1.34× 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 3 Mortlach bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| thewhiskyshop | €80.19 |
| whisky.fr | €89.00 |
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
- 4.00 / 5
- Age
- 12yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €63.27
- Actual price (median)
- €84.60
- Multiple
- 1.34×
- 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 (12 × €1.20/year)
- €21.64
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.09
- Cost floor
- €34.12
- Process distinctnessworm tubs (paper); 2.81x complex distillation (paper Wee Witchie); long fermentation3 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity43.4% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed1 / 3
- OwnershipDiageo (prestige range) — prestige-corporate0 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1823 (203 years of operation)3 / 3
- Reputation4.0/5 across 2 reviews0 / 3
- Quality score
- 7 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.58
- Intrinsic value
- €54.02
- Actual price (median)
- €84.60
- Multiple
- 1.57×
- Verdict band
- mild premium
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 799 mm at Aberlour (7 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.