TAMNAVULIN Red Wine Cask Spanish Grenache
Is it worth the price?
TAMNAVULIN Red Wine Cask Spanish Grenache is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Tamnavulin distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 4.3 out of 5 across 18 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €27.90, against a model fair price of around €30.66. That is 0.91× the model estimate — almost exactly what its age, strength and house predict, with no meaningful brand premium. 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 6 Tamnavulin bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| 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.
- Rating
- 4.33 / 5
- Age
- No age statement
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Budget Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €30.66
- Actual price (median)
- €27.90
- Multiple
- 0.91×
- Verdict band
- fair value (0.80× < … ≤ 1.20×)
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 (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).
- Process distinctnessstandard production; mothballed 1995-20070 / 3
- Cask provenancewine1 / 3
- Bottling integrity40.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed0 / 3
- OwnershipWhyte & Mackay (Emperador) — production-led corporate1 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1966 (60 years of operation); mothballed 1995-20072 / 3
- Reputation4.3333/5 across 18 reviews1 / 3
- Quality score
- 5 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.42
- Intrinsic value
- €37.85
- Actual price (median)
- €27.90
- Multiple
- 0.74×
- Verdict band
- hidden gem
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 781 mm at Delnashaugh (10 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Tamnavulin
- TAMNAVULIN Double Cask €24.50 · 0.79×
- TAMNAVULIN Red Wine Cask French Cabernet-Sauvignon €24.90 · 0.84×
- TAMNAVULIN Port Cask €26.90 · 0.85×
- TAMNAVULIN White Wine Cask Sauvignon Blanc €27.90 · 0.92×
- TAMNAVULIN Sherry Cask €27.90 · 1.02×