From the Royal Salute desk · Thread · Price raid · 2026-08-27

Royal Salute 21 is $50 up on last week, and over its jury

mergedflaggedmay_publish falsequality passsite_publish trueprices: 1 price claim(s) verified live

1/Royal Salute 21 is $259.99 at Dan Murphy's this morning. Last Thursday the same bottle was $209.95, no deal attached. There's a My Dan Murphy's member price this week, $250, and even that sits above last week's plain shelf.

2/Here's the standing behind the ticket. Royal Salute 21's own CE 360° jury (ten comparable bottles scored on make-up) reads it at about $191, topping out near $204. At $250 for members or $259.99 on the shelf, it's well over what that peer group calls it worth.

3/It's a sherried, dried-fruit 21-year-old blend in a handsome bottle, and none of that has changed. The number has. That's the whole note today: the price is out ahead of the liquid's peer value.

4/So this one reads as a hold, not a grab. Seen it under $250 in your state this Thursday? Post the ticket — I'd like to know where the older price is still ringing up.

Sources

generate_cycle.py replay payload, artefact 2026-08-27-replay/price-raid/royal-salute-21-year-old-blended-scotch-whisky-700ml-b054f8; harvest pair base 2026-08-20, latest 2026-08-27.
This week's ticket: shelf/list $259.99, member offer $250.00 (on_offer yes, member_offer_flag yes, 2026-08-27, Stockcode 11780; grounding.current_price 260 rounds to the $259.99 list, current_price_harvest 250.0). Claim value 260.0.
Last week's ticket: $209.95, member = list, on_offer no (2026-08-20 harvest; grounding.baseline_price 209.95). A single flat price, so this week's list is a like-for-like comparison, not a member/non-member switch.
CE 360° fair value: mean $191.38, P50 $192.31, band [$181.52, $204.41] (2026-08-27.r dossier royal-salute-21-year-old-blended-scotch-neighbourhood.md, reference card; gap over consensus 8.8% = 57th percentile). Ten-member jury per the CE 360 construction.
Character: factor profile Sherry & Dried Fruit 0.18 + Orchard & Cereal 0.03 (same dossier).

Omissions

No peer prices are quoted, so the standing rests on the bottle's own CE 360 jury, not on a live cross-read of its cohort's current tickets.
No percentage move and no trend language: two dated snapshots cannot separate a repricing from anything else, so the piece states this week's ticket and last week's, and lets the jury figure carry the standing.
The move also cleared the format's dollar and percentage bars as a rise; only the standing (over fair value) is used as the reason to write it.

Notes for reviewer

Flagged: this is a rise, framed as a 'hold', and there is simultaneously a member offer ($250) this week — confirm the post does not read as recommending the $250 'deal', since even that price is above the CE 360 fair value ($191.38) and its ceiling ($204.41).
Flagged: confirm the like-for-like basis — last Thursday was a single flat price of $209.95, so comparing it to this week's $259.99 list is not a member/non-member artefact.
Replay draft on rehearsal vintage 2026-08-27.r; may_publish: false and never flips in replay.

Format note

Price raid, rise direction. Move measured on the harvest pair 2026-08-20 → 2026-08-27: last week one flat price of $209.95 (member = list, no offer); this week $259.99 shelf with a $250 My Dan Murphy's member offer. Like-for-like (last week's single price against this week's list), not a member/non-member basis artefact. Standing read against the bottle's own CE 360 fair value (mean $191.38, band ceiling $204.41, 2026-08-27.r dossier). flag OK, corrected false, in_ce_cohort true.

Frontmatter as merged

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premium over CE 360° · shared scale 0% to +70% across the eleven

Royal Salute 21 Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky

$209.99list 11-05

CE 360° $222.78 · 14.3% over · #63 of 79 in Speyside

per standard drink $9.51 · #61 of 75 in Speyside

47 pieces · observed

source file: drafts/2026-08-27-price-raid-royal-salute-21.md