1/The engine's ninth-closest pair in the whole set: Blanton's Single Barrel Special Reserve, a Kentucky bourbon at $133, and Lark's Chinotto Citrus Cask, a Tasmanian single malt at $218. Two shelves that never meet.
2/It calls them near-neighbours on flavour make-up alone. Kentucky char set beside a citrus-cask Tassie malt, grouped by the model's arithmetic on the profile, not by anyone pouring the two together.
3/The value read points at the Tasmanian. Lark's Chinotto sits under the floor of its own peer group and at the bottom of its own recent range, both signals cheap and neither leaning on the other. $218 the bottle.
4/Blanton's does not line up the same way. Against comparable bourbons it sits over the ceiling, dear for what it is, even while its own recent tickets run low. Mixed signals, so it is not the value call here.
5/One profile the model can barely separate, split across two hemispheres, and the value pointing squarely at the malt. Blanton's Single Barrel at $133, or the $218 Lark? (Both Dan Murphy's, this Thursday.)
2026-08-13-replay/similarity-surprise/blanton-s-single-barrel-special-reserve-kentucky-straight-bo-be3e5a, vintage 2026-08-13.r, own-history window as-of 2026-08-13.price_tier_divergent was set from a $305 figure, but the live/claim price is $218; the draft quotes $218 and rests the surprise on the country/style split, not the price tier. Confirm this reconciliation.Similarity-surprise, light form: two live tickets, each bottle's band-position label and own-history direction, the pair's CE rank. Full form (numeric CE 360 bands, cross-read CEARP, Welch t-test) is unbuilt in the module and NOT quoted. The pair qualifies on the Lark Chinotto's two-axis agreement (under its cohort floor AND at its own-history floor); Blanton's sits over its own cohort ceiling while its own-history runs low, so its two reads disagree and it is the mixed contrast, not a second buy signal. Both prices shelf basis, neither a member offer. Sizes differ (700mL vs 500mL); the price_tier ratio in the payload (2.29) was computed against a $305 list figure — the live ticket is $218, at which the tier gap is narrower, so the piece leans on the country/style split, not the price tier.
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