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Nc'nean / Highland

NC'NEAN Organic Single Malt

1.42× mild premium NAS rating 5.0/5 · n=2
cheapest
€72.00
whisky.fr
intrinsic
€50.56
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2

Is it worth the price?

NC'NEAN Organic Single Malt is a Highland single malt Scotch from the Nc'nean distillery, released without an age statement. Tasters score it 5.0 out of 5 across 2 reviews. It is tracked at 2 retailers, ranging from €72.00 to €72.06, while the valuation model estimates a fair price of around €50.56. That is 1.42× the model estimate — a mild premium over what its age, strength and house predict. 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.

Retailers tracked

Retailer Price
whisky.fr €72.00
thewhiskyshop €72.06

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
5.00 / 5
Age
No age statement
Region
Highland
Distillery tier
Mid Label only — set from the distillery’s median price, not used by the model.
Result
Predicted price
€50.56
Actual price (median)
€72.03
Multiple
1.42×
Verdict band
mild premium (1.20× < … ≤ 2.00×)

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 (€0.40/cl × 70 cl)
€28.00
Maturation (NAS→5 × €1.20/year)
€6.92
Cask premium (undeclared)
+€0.00
× ABV factor
×1.15
Cost floor
€40.16

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

Quality grade (six 0–3 axes)
  • Process distinctness
    68-114h fermentation (60 typical in Scotch); narrow cut, varied seasonally by intended bottling age; on-site dunnage warehouses; slow distillation in lantern stills for high reflux; two house yeasts plus rum, wine and champagne strains in the Huntress series; certified organic barley; 1h mash rest; biomass boiler, recirculated cooling water, near-zero waste; 100% recycled glass; first spirit 2017
    3 / 3
  • Cask provenance
    cask type not declared on bottle
    0 / 3
  • Bottling integrity
    46.0% ABV; non-chill-filtered inferred from ABV; E150a caramel colouring not disclosed
    2 / 3
  • Ownership
    Nc’nean Distillery (independent, Thomas family) — independent or smaller group
    2 / 3
  • Heritage
    founded 2017 (9 years of operation)
    0 / 3
  • Reputation
    5.0/5 across 2 reviews
    3 / 3
Quality score
10 / 18
Quality multiplier
×1.83
Intrinsic and multiple
Intrinsic value
€73.62
Actual price (median)
€72.03
Multiple
0.98×
Verdict band
fair value

Maturation context

Highland · rolling 12 months: 2,313 mm at Tobermory (12 km). Scotland W rolling 12-month rainfall2,451 mm, +33.70% vs 1995-2024 median.