1/The Glenlivet 18 is $200 this week. That's about 42% over the going rate for its features, $141 — what the rest of the whisky at Dan Murphy's would come to for the same age, strength, name and style.
2/What makes up that $141? Mostly age, at 62%. Then being a single malt at 12%, sherry and dried fruit 8%, and strength 7%. The age does most of the lifting.
3/Its own drinker weights the same features, just differently: age 74%, being a single malt 20%. The same fruit-and-flowers 18, read two ways — one weighting set against another, not one of them missing what the other sees.
4/More isn't always better. Glen Moray 21 is $343 this week — about $13.41 a standard drink across roughly 26 in the bottle — and gives a Glenlivet 18 drinker about 85% of what the 18 does. A yes either way: the 18 if age is the draw; the 21 if you'll pay $343 for most of it.
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