Springbank 12 Years Old Cask Strength
Is it worth the price?
Springbank 12 Years Old Cask Strength is a Campbeltown single malt Scotch from the Springbank distillery, bottled at 12 years old. Tasters score it 4.4 out of 5 across 100 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €89.49, against a model fair price of around €124.81. 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 6 Springbank bottlings priced here, this is the strongest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| thewhiskyshop | €89.49 |
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
- 4.43 / 5
- Age
- 12yo
- Region
- Campbeltown
- Distillery tier
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €124.81
- Actual price (median)
- €89.49
- 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 (€0.25/cl × 70 cl)
- €17.50
- Maturation (12 × €1.20/year)
- €21.64
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.00
- Cost floor
- €39.14
- Process distinctnesspartial estate barley / floor malting on site; 2.5x distillation (paper); on-site floor malting (paper); dunnage warehousing; own malting/bottling integration; mothballed 1979-19893 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle; partial single-estate malt0 / 3
- Bottling integrityABV not declared; cask strength (declared); E150a caramel colouring not disclosed3 / 3
- OwnershipJ&A Mitchell (Mitchell family) — family multigenerational3 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1828 (198 years of operation); mothballed 1979-19892 / 3
- Reputation4.43/5 across 100 reviews1 / 3
- Quality score
- 12 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×2.00
- Intrinsic value
- €78.29
- Actual price (median)
- €89.49
- Multiple
- 1.14×
- Verdict band
- fair value
Maturation context
Campbeltown · rolling 12 months: 1,849 mm at Dippen (19 km). Scotland W rolling 12-month rainfall2,451 mm, +33.70% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Springbank
- Springbank 15 Years Old €90.65 · 0.86×
- Springbank 10 Years Old €69.15 · 0.90×
- Longrow Red €99.95 · 0.90×
- Springbank 18 Years Old €118.54 · 1.08×
- Springbank 21 Years Old €649.00 · 2.04×