Glenfarclas 15 is $185 at Dan Murphy's this week, which is about where it usually sits. As a pour at home that works out to around $7.28 a standard drink, a touch over a $13 pint at the pub (roughly $6.28 a drink, since a pint holds about two). There are about 25 standard drinks in the bottle.
Here is the thing worth knowing before you reach for it. The Glendronach 12 gives a Glenfarclas 15 drinker about 95% of what their own bottle does, for 59% of its price. Same sherried, dried-fruit, roast-oak world, for well under the money.
So what would the drinkers of the bottles sitting closest to Glenfarclas 15 pay for it, each starting from what they pay for their own? Across that group the answers run from $75 to $288, and at $185 this week's price sits inside the band. The one who marks it down hardest is the Tamdhu 12 drinker, at about $87, roughly 69% of what their own bottle costs them. They dock it for leaning harder on sherry and dried fruit, and for being older than theirs. Turn it around, and a Glenfarclas 15 drinker rates Tamdhu 12 at about 88% of their own, marking it down for that same sherry and dried fruit and for being younger than theirs.
As for the Glenfarclas 15 itself: deep and aromatic on the nose, dried fruits and toffee with a hint of leather and warming spice. The palate is full-bodied and smooth, running through dark fruit, maltiness, roast oak, Christmas cake, rum, raisins and baking spice. Non-chill filtered. It is the Speyside sherry bomb done without apology.
Three bottles stand in for it, and the interest is in where each one pulls away.
Tamdhu 15, $202 this week. Where Glenfarclas settles into Christmas cake, this one goes darker: molasses, orange peel and prickly oak, then Turkish Delight and dark chocolate in a long finish. To a Glenfarclas 15 drinker it gives about 98% of what the Glenfarclas does, for 109% of its price.
Tamdhu 12, $126 this week. Drier and brighter than the Glenfarclas, with citrus and hazelnut up front before the sweeter sherry, cinnamon and banoffee pie arrive. To a Glenfarclas 15 drinker it gives about 88% of what the Glenfarclas does, for 68% of its price.
Aberlour 14, $140. Rounder and jammier than either, all peaches, marzipan and vanilla, with orange cake and a little clove sitting behind. To a Glenfarclas 15 drinker it gives about 88% of what the Glenfarclas does, for 76% of its price. It usually sells around $140, and we have seen it from $140 to $160.
So, a yes for each kind of drinker.
If Glenfarclas 15 is your bottle, $185 is the price this week and it is close to the usual, so pour it with a clear conscience.
If you want that same sherried weight for less, the Glendronach 12 is the plain move, at 59% of the price for about 95% of the experience.
If you came in as a Tamdhu 12 drinker, Glenfarclas 15 is the older, deeper relation of what you already like, and your own number says you would stretch to about $87 for it.
If Tamdhu 15 is your usual, you are already paying a shade more for much the same dram, so there is no rush either way.
And if Aberlour 14 is your bottle, Glenfarclas trades the jammy roundness for sherry and spice. That is a yes if a darker, fruitier pour is the direction you fancy.
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