1/Friday knock-off, nothing fancy. Lagavulin 8 is open on the bench — $99 for members at Dan's, eight years old at 48%. Mineral, salt, a flick of Parma violet, peat smoke drifting off a kiln. For a Port Charlotte 10 drinker it's 97% of the night, for 68% of the spend.
2/The Port Charlotte 10 sits beside it at $146, heavier peated, butterscotch and a touch of sherry, iodine kept on a leash. What a Port Charlotte drinker gives up stepping across to the Lagavulin is mostly two years of age. That's the whole of it.
3/So: the Port Charlotte 10 at $146 is still the one its fans reach for, and no argument there. The Lagavulin 8 at $99 is the one for every other night of the week — at about $3.73 a pour, roughly two-thirds what that pint down the pub costs you per drink.
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