1/The model puts a Speyside single malt and a Canadian blend seventh-closest in the whole set. Cragganmore 12, the Speyside, at $86. Canadian Club 12 across from it. Two shelves that never share a bay.
2/Read what that closeness is. It's the arithmetic on their flavour make-up sitting near each other, not two glasses poured side by side. Profile geometry. Nobody's saying they taste the same.
3/The value read points at the Cragganmore. It sits under the floor of its own Speyside peers and at the bottom of its own recent range. Two separate measures, both saying cheap, neither leaning on the other. $86 the bottle.
4/Canadian Club reads cheap too, and I'd trust that one less as a signal: its $80 is a member price, not the shelf. Good if you're a member, worth checking before you count on it.
5/So: one flavour shape the engine can barely tell apart, split across a Canadian blend and a Scottish malt. The Speyside's the one lining up two ways. Cragganmore 12 at $86, or the Canadian Club? (Both this Thursday.)
2026-09-10-replay/similarity-surprise/canadian-club-12-year-old-classic-blended-canadian-whisky-70-dc8d5b, vintage 2026-09-10.r, own-history window as-of 2026-09-10.None recorded.
Similarity-surprise, light form: two live tickets, each bottle's band-position label and own-history percentile, 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. Value line rests on Cragganmore's two-axis agreement (under its cohort floor AND at the bottom of its own recent range), shelf basis. Canadian Club's $80 ticket is a member offer — member basis. Hook rests on CE rank 7, not rank 1, and the post says so.
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