1/The furthest a Highland bottle strays from its own 360° jury this week is a Glengoyne Cask Strength: $173, sitting about 24% above the fair value that jury gives it. Widest gap on the shelf. A live price at Dan Murphy's this Thursday, not a stale one.
2/Thirty-six Highland bottles, all priced live. I've ranked them by how far each price sits over the fair value its own jury settles on. Percent, not dollars — this shelf runs a fifty-buck blend up to an eight-hundred-dollar Macallan.
3/Read one thing into that ranking and nothing else: how close the price sits to the bottle's own consensus. Nothing here dips below its mean, so the fair end is "closest to fair", never a discount. It's not about what sells.
4/The fair end is honest blended Scotch. Dimple 12 at $54, under half a percent over its jury. Dewar's 12 at $63. Dewar's White Label litre at $69. Two malts follow close: The Deveron 12 at $90 and Glencadam Reserve at $86, both inside one and a half percent.
5/Highland character, pooled from the shelf's own reviews: the Glengoyne expressions loom large, the original bottlings against the greater profiles, younger against older. Region-wide vocabulary, not any one bottle's note.
6/The cold end is where I'd slow down. Glengoyne Cask Strength, $173, about 24% over — the top of the shelf. Glenmorangie Signet next, $370, near 23%. Then the Glengoyne 21 at $361, roughly 18% over its own mean.
7/Behind those, the dear bottles carry the age tax you'd expect. The Dalmore 18 at $536, about 17% over. And the shelf's ceiling, Macallan Harmony at $800, still 15% clear of its jury. Big numbers, but not the widest gaps here.
8/So the tidy read of Highland this Thursday: fair value lives among the blends at the bottom, and the premium climbs as you go up — the cask-strength and older malts asking most over what their own juries reckon. Honest cheaper pour this week, Dimple 12 at $54?
| End | Item | Price | Gap % | Priced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot 1 | Dimple 12 Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky 700mL | $54 | +0.48% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| Hot 2 | Dewar's 12 Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky 700mL | $63 | +0.69% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| Hot 3 | Dewar's White Label Blended Scotch Whisky 1L | $69 | +0.82% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| (hot) | The Deveron 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $90 | +1.28% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| (hot) | Glencadam Reserve American Oak Bourbon Barrel Single Malt Whisky 700mL | $86 | +1.34% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| Cold 1 | Glengoyne Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $173 | +24.11% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| Cold 2 | Glenmorangie Signet 700mL | $370 | +22.91% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| Cold 3 | Glengoyne 21 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $361 | +17.55% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| (cold) | The Dalmore 18 Year Old Scotch Whisky 700mL | $536 | +17.00% | observed 2026-09-10 |
| (cold) | Macallan The HarmonyCol Rich Cacao 700mL | $800 | +15.06% | observed 2026-09-10 |
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