Is it worth the price?
LINKWOOD 15 Years Old 1990 bottled 2006 Gordon & Macphail is a Speyside single malt Scotch from the Linkwood distillery, bottled at 15 years old. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 1 reviews. A single retailer lists it at €420.00, against a model fair price of around €109.67. That is 3.83× the model estimate — well above what its age, strength and house predict, a substantial 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. Of the 4 Linkwood bottlings priced here, this is the weakest value.
Retailers tracked
| Retailer | Price |
|---|---|
| whisky.fr | €420.00 |
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
- Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
- Predicted price
- €109.67
- Actual price (median)
- €420.00
- Multiple
- 3.83×
- Verdict band
- brand premium (2.00× < … ≤ 4.00×)
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 (€0.18/cl × 70 cl)
- €12.60
- Maturation (15 × €1.20/year)
- €30.48
- Cask premium (undeclared)
- +€0.00
- × ABV factor
- ×1.13
- Cost floor
- €48.47
- Process distinctnessno declared distinctive practices2 / 3
- Cask provenancecask type not declared on bottle0 / 3
- Bottling integrity45.0% ABV; chill-filtration not disclosed; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed1 / 3
- OwnershipDiageo — independent or smaller group2 / 3
- Heritagefounded 1821 (205 years of operation)3 / 3
- Reputation5.0/5 across 1 review2 / 3
- Quality score
- 10 / 18
- Quality multiplier
- ×1.83
- Intrinsic value
- €88.86
- Actual price (median)
- €420.00
- Multiple
- 4.73×
- Verdict band
- luxury premium
Maturation context
Speyside · rolling 12 months: 691 mm at Blackhills No 2 (5 km). Scotland N rolling 12-month rainfall2,298 mm, +33.30% vs 1995-2024 median.
Other bottlings from Linkwood
- LINKWOOD 12 Years Old 2012 100 Proof #68 Signatory Vintage €65.90 · 0.47×
- LINKWOOD 12 Years Old 2013 Very Cloudy 2nd fill butts Signatory Vintage €59.90 · 0.94×
- LINKWOOD 12 Years Old 2012 Artist Collective 7.0 €92.00 · 1.11×