Is it worth the price?
AULTMORE 15 Years Old 2009 Refill American Hogshead Connoiseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Aultmore distillery, bottled at 15 years old. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 1 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €183.00, against a model fair price of around €161.58. That is 1.13× the model estimate — almost exactly the quality-predicted price, with no meaningful brand premium. Of the 2 Aultmore bottlings priced here, this is the weakest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €183.00 |
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
- 5.00 / 5
- Age
- 15yo
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Premium
- Predicted price
- €161.58
- Actual price (median)
- €183.00
- Multiple
- 1.13×
- 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 (15 × €1.20/year)
- €30.48
- Cask premium (refill bourbon)
- €-2.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.35
- Cost floor
- €51.68
- Process distinctnessone of Dewar's Last Great Malts; expanded to 6M LPA in 20242 / 3
- Cask provenancerefill bourbon2 / 3
- Bottling integrity57.3% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed3 / 3
- OwnershipBacardi / John Dewar & Sons — independent or smaller group2 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1896 (130 years of operation)2 / 3
- Reputation5.0/5 across 1 review1 / 3
- Quality score
- 12 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×2.00
- Intrinsic value
- €103.36
- Actual price (median)
- €183.00
- Multiple
- 1.77×
- Verdict band
- mild premium
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 773 mm at Keith (4 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,235 mm, +30.70% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Aultmore
- Aultmore 12 Years Old €62.00 · 0.62×