GLENFIDDICH Fire & Cane Ancien Packaging
Is it worth the price?
GLENFIDDICH Fire & Cane Ancien Packaging is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Glenfiddich distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 4.8 out of 5 across 4 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €59.00, against a model fair price of around €49.55. That is 1.19× the model estimate — almost exactly the quality-predicted price, with no meaningful brand premium. It is one of 11 Glenfiddich bottlings priced here; the others are compared below.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €59.00 |
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
- 4.75 / 5
- Age
- No age statement
- Region
- Speyside
- Distillery tier
- Budget
- Predicted price
- €49.55
- Actual price (median)
- €59.00
- Multiple
- 1.19×
- 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 (€0.10/cl × 70 cl)
- €7.00
- Maturation (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
- €6.92
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.05
- Cost floor
- €14.62
NAS treated as 5 years for maturation cost (paper convention).
- Process distinctnessown coopers; large-scale standard production1 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity43.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed1 / 3
- OwnershipWilliam Grant & Sons (family corporate) — production-led corporate1 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1886 (140 years of operation)2 / 3
- Reputation4.75/5 across 4 reviews2 / 3
- Quality score
- 7 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.58
- Intrinsic value
- €23.14
- Actual price (median)
- €59.00
- Multiple
- 2.55×
- Verdict band
- brand premium
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 743 mm at Aberlour (6 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,235 mm, +30.70% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Glenfiddich
- GLENFIDDICH 14 Years Old Bourbon Barrel Reserve €50.50 · 0.78×
- GLENFIDDICH 15 Years Old Solera €59.31 · 0.81×
- GLENFIDDICH 12 Years Old Triple Oak €45.00 · 0.92×
- GLENFIDDICH 18 Years Old Small Batch €85.95 · 0.99×
- GLENFIDDICH Fire & Cane €44.33 · 1.00×
- GLENFIDDICH Orchard Experiment €51.25 · 1.19×