1/Flower, orchid, pineapple and mandarin: aka The Glenlivet 12, $76 at Dan Murphy's this week. For a The Glenlivet 15 drinker, that's about 93% of what the 15 gives, for 50% of its price.
2/The Glenlivet 12, $76. Twelve years old, bottled at 40%. The nose keeps to its lightness — lily, orchid, pineapple — with a thick creaminess bedding it all down. Add a splash of water and mandarin, rose petal and a little white pepper come through. Lovely.
3/What a 15 drinker gives up by reaching for the 12 is mostly three years of age and some of the sherry and dried fruit. That's the whole of the trade.
4/The Glenlivet 15, $153, is still the one for its fans — perfumed oak, apple and pear. The 12, $76, is the one for every other night; it usually sells around $79. Pour them side by side and see how close they sit.
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