1/Most of a Glenlivet 15 for 55% of the price? Say hello to the Singleton of Dufftown 12. For a Glenlivet 15 drinker it carries about 94% of what the Glenlivet 15 gives, and this week it asks only 55% of the price.
2/The Singleton of Dufftown 12: $69 for members at Dan Murphy's, twelve years old, bottled at 40%. The nose is very soft and faint, a touch of alcoholic fruit punch, no off-notes. The palate runs watery and mild with nothing off, and the finish all but disappears.
3/What a Glenlivet 15 drinker gives up with the Singleton of Dufftown 12 is mostly three years of age. That is the shape of it: a younger whisky in the glass, and those years are what you set aside. Nothing more than that.
4/The Glenlivet 15 at $125 for members, with its perfumed oak and orchard apple and pear, is still the one for its fans. The Singleton of Dufftown 12 at $69, soft and easy, is the one you reach for on every other night. Two yeses, one for each pour.
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