If Glengoyne 15 is your bottle, the first thing I'd want to know is whether there's something close to it for less. There is, and it comes from the same still. Glengoyne 12, at $109, gives a Glengoyne 15 drinker about 93% of what their own bottle does. Same house, a little less across the counter — that's the whole point of this piece, so let me show my working.
Start with the bottle in hand. Glengoyne reworked its core range a few years back, and the 15 arrived as part of that, matured in sherry casks. The nose is vanilla, ginger and toffee, with a note of old leather and some sweet fruit behind it. The palate runs a touch oily, with lively spice, raisins, hazelnuts and oak. The finish is medium and stays spicy to the end, with cocoa powder. It's a warm, sherried dram that doesn't ask much of you.
This week it's $130 for members at Dan Murphy's. Costed as a pour at home, that's about $5.47 a standard drink, and there are roughly 24 standard drinks in the bottle — a little under the $6.28 a standard drink of a $13 pint at the pub.
Now the interesting bit. What would the drinkers of the bottles nearest Glengoyne 15 pay for it, each starting from what they pay for their own? An Edradour 10 drinker would pay about $95, which is 85% of what their own bottle costs them; they mark it down mostly for being older than theirs and for being stronger. The other way round, a Glengoyne 15 drinker puts Edradour 10 at about 89% of their own, marking it down for being younger than theirs and lighter in strength. Across the bottles nearest it, the answers run from $77 to $307, and at $130 for members it sits inside what the drinkers of the bottles nearest it would pay.
If you want a change, here are three that read as close kin.
Glenfiddich 18, usually around $175, is the smooth Speysider of the set: oak and fresh apple, barley and cereal, a little dried fruit and toffee, then fruit cake, Christmas pudding and warming cinnamon. To a Glengoyne 15 drinker it gives about 95% of what their own bottle does — the closest of the three, and a shade sweeter in the spiced-cake direction.
Glencadam 15, usually around $140, is the delicate one. Floral notes, cooking apples and a dab of white pepper on the nose, then honey, vanilla, roasted chestnuts and nutmeg, with oak and ginger on a medium finish. To a Glengoyne 15 drinker it gives about 93% — the lightest-footed here, if you fancy the same company in a quieter register.
Glengoyne 18, usually around $276, is the elder from the same house. Milk chocolate, vanilla, melon and grapefruit on the nose, with dry sherry and fruitcake coming through; the palate is rich and rounded — cinnamon and ginger, almonds, orange marmalade and caramel — on a long, spiced finish. To a Glengoyne 15 drinker it gives about 92%, further up the range than the 15 but plainly cut from the same cloth.
So, a yes for each of you. If Glengoyne 15 is already your pour, stay with it, or slide down to the 12 for the same house at $109. If you drink Edradour 10, the 15 reads as close kin and is worth about $95 to you. If Glenfiddich 18 or Glencadam 15 is more your line, you're within easy reach of the 15 either way, and it of you. And if you've had none of them, $130 for members is a comfortable, sherried place to begin — then the rest of the family is right there when you're ready.
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