1/What are you paying for in The Glenlivet 12? Age, most of all. Price its age, strength, name and single-malt style the way Dan Murphy's prices the rest, and the features come to $96. This week it's $79, about 18% under that.
2/The going rate breaks down like this: age is 56%, being a single malt 18%, the name on the label 13%, strength 12%. Age carries more than half of what those features are worth.
3/What the going rate can't see is the glass itself: orchard fruit and a thick, creamy malt, lily and pineapple, mandarin and white pepper with water. The Glenlivet 12 is strongest here, and none of the priced features puts a number on it.
4/The Deveron 12 is $91 this week and gives a Glenlivet 12 drinker about 99% of what it does: soft peaches, vanilla, butterscotch, a dry oaky finish. At $3.56 a standard drink against the Deveron's $4.12, both sit under a $13 pint's $6.28. More is not always better.
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