silkywhisky
Tamnavulin / Speyside

TAMNAVULIN Red Wine Cask French Cabernet-Sauvignon

0.56× hidden gem NAS rating 4.6/5 · n=8
cheapest
€24.90
photo
intrinsic
€46.95
N
2

Is it worth the price?

TAMNAVULIN Red Wine Cask French Cabernet-Sauvignon is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Tamnavulin distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 4.6 out of 5 across 8 reviews. It is tracked at 2 retailers, ranging from €24.90 to €27.90, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €46.95. That is 0.56× the model estimate — well below the quality-predicted price, and one of the clearer value picks in the data. It is one of 6 Tamnavulin bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.

Retailers tracked

Retailer Price
photo €24.90
whisky.fr €27.90

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.

Inputs
Rating
4.63 / 5
Age
No age statement
Region
Speyside
Distillery tier
Budget
Result
Predicted price
€46.95
Actual price (median)
€26.40
Multiple
0.56×
Verdict band
hidden gem (≤ 0.80×)

See the regression's coefficients →

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.

Cost floor
Production (€0.14/cl × 70 cl)
€9.80
Maturation (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
€6.92
Cask premium (wine)
+€10.00
× ABV factor
×1.00
Cost floor
€26.72

NAS treated as 5 years for maturation cost (paper convention).

Quality grade (six 0–3 axes)
  • Process distinctness
    standard production; mothballed 1995-2007
    0 / 3
  • Cask provenance
    wine
    1 / 3
  • Bottling integrity
    40.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed
    0 / 3
  • Ownership
    Whyte & Mackay (Emperador) — production-led corporate
    1 / 3
  • Heritage
    founded 1966 (60 years of operation); mothballed 1995-2007
    2 / 3
  • Reputation
    4.625/5 across 8 reviews
    1 / 3
Quality score
5 / 18
Quality multiplier
×1.42
Intrinsic and multiple
Intrinsic value
€37.85
Actual price (median)
€26.40
Multiple
0.70×
Verdict band
hidden gem

Maturation context

Speyside · rolling 12 months: 727 mm at Delnashaugh (10 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,223 mm, +30.70% vs 1995-2024 median.

Other bottlings from Tamnavulin