1/Twenty-eight Irish whiskeys on Dan Murphy's floor this Thursday, and the ruler runs from $55 to $434. One bottle stretches almost all of it: set Midleton Very Rare aside at $412 and the rest gathers close, a median near $78. Nearly the whole country in one narrow band.
2/The fair end is the everyday pour. Proper No. Twelve's litre at $91 sits about a third of a percent over its own CE 360 jury. Dubliner at $68 is next, then the two Finnlaighs (the litre $72, the 700 just $55), all inside a percent and a bit.
3/Jameson's litre rounds out the honest corner at $80, near enough to its number to call fair. Read the pooled words and you get why nobody's overpaying: pot still, stout, orchard fruit, raisin, that soft cereal buzz. Approachable whiskey, priced approachably.
4/Now the other end. McConnell's Belfast at $81 is the coldest read on the shelf — about 40% over its jury. Teeling Single Pot Still ($97) is a whisker behind at 38%. Both are ordinary-money bottles carrying a premium the consensus doesn't back.
5/Then the trophy. Midleton Very Rare at $412 is 22% over its own mean — the one genuine extreme ticket, and the live price matches the model, so a real premium, not a data artefact. It reads smaller than McConnell's only because it's set against Midleton's own lofty band.
6/Rounding the cold end: Proper No. Twelve's 700 at $67 is 17% over, and Teeling Single Grain at $88 is 16%. So Proper No. Twelve shows at both ends by size — the litre bang on fair, the 700 among the dearest reads. A size split, noted, not a contradiction.
7/The takeaway: Ireland is a tight, honest floor with one trophy on top. Everyday drinking sits fair to a fault. For value against its own jury, the $68 Dubliner or the $55 Finnlaighs 700 is where the shelf agrees. (Dan Murphy's, this Thursday.)
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