1/Some whiskies are built to win over a whole room. The Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23 is built to delight the people who already love it, and it knows exactly who they are.
2/Ask the drinkers of the bottles nearest it what this one is worth to them, each starting from what they pay for their own, and the answers run from $71 to $532. At $559 it sits above all of them: priced for its fans.
3/On the nose: canned apricots in syrup, toasted marshmallows, apple blossom and honey. The palate is full and generous, with pears, vanilla, freshly sawn timber, warm white bread, caramel, cloves and milk chocolate. Toffee and instant coffee linger.
4/It usually sells around $559, and we've seen it between $478 and $559, so this week sits at its usual mark. That works out to about $25.30 a pour at home, across roughly 22 in the bottle.
5/So who's it for? If apricot-and-honey, timber-and-coffee is already among your favourites, yes. If you're meeting Glenfiddich for the first time and want its fullest version, also yes. The wider room may shrug; its fans won't.
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