If Glenfiddich 18 is your pour and you fancy spending a little less, the nearest answer wears the same name. Glenfiddich 15, at $140, gives a Glenfiddich 18 drinker about 96% of what their own bottle does. Same distillery, three fewer years, and very little left behind.
Start with the 18 itself. The nose is oak and fresh apple, with barley and cereal underneath and a sweetness of dried fruit and toffee. The palate carries that cereal note into fruit cake and Christmas pudding, with a warming cinnamon spice and a mild heat. The word most people reach for is smooth. If apple, fruit cake and cinnamon sound like your evening, this is a Speyside single malt at 18 years.
What to pay. Glenfiddich 18 is $175 at Dan Murphy's this week. It usually sells around $175, and we've seen it from $170 to $180. So this week's price lands right where you'd expect it.
Now the part that puts a price in company. Picture the drinkers of the bottles nearest Glenfiddich 18, each starting from what they pay for their own, and ask what they'd give for this one. Their answers run from $65 to $331, and at $175 the 18 sits comfortably inside that spread. The drinker who marks it down hardest is the Edradour 10 drinker, who'd pay about $79 for it — 71% of what their own bottle costs them — mostly for its extra years and the name on the label. Turn it around, and a Glenfiddich 18 drinker puts Edradour 10 at about 77% of their own, marking it down mostly for being younger and, again, for the name.
A per-pour note, since it helps you weigh it: the 18 works out to $7.92 a standard drink, with about 22 in the bottle. A pint at the pub, near enough two standard drinks for $13, lands at $6.28. So a dram of the 18 at home sits a touch over a pint.
Three stand-ins, if you want a change of scene.
Glengoyne 15, $130, leans on sherry, vanilla and ginger. To a Glenfiddich 18 drinker it gives about 95% of what the 18 does, for 74% of its price.
Glengoyne 18, $276, brings milk chocolate, vanilla and melon. To a Glenfiddich 18 drinker it gives about 91% of the 18, for 158% of its price. It usually sells around $276, and we've seen it from $220 to $276.
Glengoyne 21, $361, is honey, cookie dough and cinnamon. To a Glenfiddich 18 drinker it gives about 92% of the 18, for 206% of its price, and it usually sits around $361.
So, who's it for. If Glenfiddich 18 is already your bottle, nothing here asks you to move — $175 is the price this week, and that's the price it usually sells around. If you'd like the same evening for less, Glenfiddich 15 at $140 is the closest thing to it, 96% of the experience from the same hands. If you drink Edradour 10, the 18 is the older step up, and your own reckoning already puts it near $79. And if sherry is the thing you chase, Glengoyne 15 is the easy one to reach for first, with the Glengoyne 18 and 21 waiting when you want more of it.
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