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Old No.7 sits on its number while Pappy asks a third more

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1/On the American shelf the honest work falls to one name and the hunting to another. Jack Daniel's sits right on its fair value; the allocated bottles climb well past theirs. Forty-two whiskies, every one live-checked at Dan Murphy's this Thursday.

2/Coverage first: all 42 members priced live in the 2026-09-10 harvest. No carried tickets, no curated subset. The whole USA shelf, end to end.

3/Fairest of the lot is plain Jack. Old No.7 at $57 sits 0.03% over what its own CE 360° jury gives it — as close to its number as a ticket gets. The litre bottle matches it: $77, also 0.03% over.

4/The rest of the hot end is the same bottle in other sizes. Old No.7 at 1.136L, $98, 0.04% over. The 1.75L at $154, 0.05% over. One whiskey, four formats, all sitting right on their own mean — so read the hot list as one honest bottle, not four separate finds.

5/Cold end. Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Select is $113, about 35% over its own jury — the widest gap on the shelf. Same maker as the fairest bottle, a long way up the ladder.

6/Then the genuinely dear, and it's real. Old Rip Van Winkle 10 Year Old at $900, 31% over its own mean; the 12 Year Old Special Reserve at $1,000, also 31% over. Allocated Pappy-family bourbon. Tickets verified live, not a data artefact — those bottles honestly ask that much.

7/Gentleman Jack rounds out the dear corner at $65, 21% over its number. As a family the flavour reads corn and rye, a bit of cola and earth, the odd note of bananas and sawdust across the pooled reviews.

8/So the shelf splits clean. Old No.7 in every size sits on fair value; the premium-label and allocated bottles carry the gap. Hot means closest to consensus here — not one bottle on this shelf is priced under it.

Sources

Item	Price	ce_gap_pct
Jack Daniel's Old No.7 Tennessee Whiskey 700mL	$57	0.03%
Jack Daniel's Old No.7 Tennessee Whiskey 1L	$77	0.03%
Jack Daniel's Old No.7 Tennessee Whiskey 1.136L	$98	0.04%
Item	Price	ce_gap_pct
---	---:	---:
Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Select Tennessee Whiskey 700mL	$113	35.41%
Old Rip Van Winkle 10 Year Old 107 Proof Bourbon Whiskey 700mL	$900	31.27%
Old Rip Van Winkle 12 Year Old Special Reserve 750mL	$1,000	30.99%

Omissions

Coverage is complete: 42 of 42 members observed live on 2026-09-10, none carried (grounding.coverage; candidate.coverage.carried_ids empty). No excluded members.
Sources shows the aggregate's stored top/bottom five each side, not the full 42-row ranked shelf — the sidecar does not store every member's gap. The mid-shelf bottles between the hot and cold cuts are not individually ranked here.
No per-bottle tasting notes: the payload carries only USA-parent pooled words, so post 7's flavour words are attributed to the family, not to Gentleman Jack specifically.

Notes for reviewer

None recorded.

Format note

Whole Shelf, scope USA (country), vintage 2026-09-10.r. Gap basis: percentage — the aggregate's own choice, because this shelf runs $50.95 to $899.99 (a max/min ratio above 2 reads in percentage, not dollars). ce_gap_pct = (price − CE 360° mean) / price × 100, each bottle's premium over its own consensus; 'hot' is the smallest premium (closest to fair value, never a discount), 'cold' the largest. Value-signal only — never sales velocity, popularity or trend. Coverage: 42 of 42 members priced live in the 2026-09-10 harvest (100%); nothing carried. Sources holds the aggregate's stored top/bottom cut (the notable movers each side), not every member's gap — the sidecar doesn't store the full ranked shelf.

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