Glen Moray 18 is $164 at Dan Murphy's this week, and that is about where it usually sells, around $164. So treat this as a price guide, not a scramble: if it is your bottle, you already know the number.
Here is the thing worth knowing. The bottle most like Glen Moray 18 for less money carries the same name on the label. Glen Moray 15, $94 for members, gives a Glen Moray 18 drinker about 87% of what their own bottle does. Same distillery, three fewer years, and most of the character still in the glass.
Now the other drinkers. A Dalwhinnie 15 drinker would pay about $84 for Glen Moray 18, which is 88% of what they pay for their own bottle; they mark it down for not being a Highland malt and for being stronger than what they are used to. Turn it around and a Glen Moray 18 drinker rates Dalwhinnie 15 at 91% of their own, marking it down for being lighter in strength and younger. Across the bottles sitting nearest Glen Moray 18, the answers run from $84 to $322. At $164 this week, it sits inside that span — what the drinkers of the nearest bottles would pay for it, each starting from what they pay for their own.
So what is in the bottle? Glen Moray 18 is a Speyside eighteen that leans soft and rounded rather than loud. Melon and apricot up front, a little dried hay, a note of apple pie, and a backbone of peppery fruit and malt underneath. It balances delicacy and strength instead of chasing power. At about $6.29 a standard drink, a pour at home runs just over a pint at the pub, which sits near $6.28 a standard drink — handy maths for a quiet evening.
A few stand-ins, if you want a change.
Glen Moray 21, usually around $343. Oolong and ripe red fruit, a wisp of tawny port, baking spice and caramel over a creamy, honeyed palate. To a Glen Moray 18 drinker it gives about 95% of what their bottle does, for 209% of the price.
The Glen Grant 15, usually around $149. Shortbread and golden syrup, vanilla, pears and lemon candy, then apples and a rougher, gingery mid-palate. About 95% of the Glen Moray 18 for a drinker of it, at 91% of the price.
Glencadam 15, $140 for members. Floral and delicate on the nose, cooking apple and white pepper, then honey, vanilla, roasted chestnut and nutmeg. About 94% of the Glen Moray 18, at 85% of the price.
Who is it for? If Glen Moray 18 is already your pour, $164 is the number this week and nothing here asks you to move. If you want the same house in a younger coat, Glen Moray 15 at $94 for members is the short walk. Chasing more of everything and happy to pay for it, Glen Moray 21 is the older sibling. If you came from Dalwhinnie 15, the soft honeyed middle you like turns up here in a Speyside form. And the Glen Grant 15 or Glencadam 15 drinker gets most of what Glen Moray 18 offers for a touch less — an easy yes either way.
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