1/The fairest pour in Kentucky tonight is a $55 Wild Turkey — the plain 81-proof one. It sits 0.36% over what its own CE 360° jury of peers reckons it's worth. Of every bottle I checked, no ticket lands nearer its own number than that.
2/Widen out and the whole floor came in: thirty-eight Kentucky bottles, every one priced live this week. Big enough to be a proper shelf, small enough to check end to end. So no curated subset — the lot.
3/The hot end, meaning closest to fair value, not cheapest: Wild Turkey 81 at $55 (0.36% over), Ezra Brooks at $70 (0.99%), Maker's Mark 700mL at $56 (2.24%). Basil Hayden's ($80) and Weller Special Reserve ($100) round out the tight pack.
4/None of those is a discount, mind. Every gap here runs one way, above the jury — the hot ones just barely. It's the everyday wall of names the market has settled a fair number on.
5/Reads the way the words do: honey and toffee, cornbread, dried fruit, a little leather and rye. Straightforward Kentucky, and for the most part priced straight.
6/The cold end is the allocated stuff. Old Rip Van Winkle 10-year at $900 (31.27% over its own jury) and the 12-year at $1,000 (30.99%). Blanton's Straight From The Barrel at $304 sits 30.78% over — a near dead heat with the two Pappys.
7/Those aren't data artefacts. The live tickets match the model bottle for bottle; the trophy shelf is simply where the hunt sets the price, not the pour. Angels Envy ($100, 17.97% over) and Blanton's Gold ($203, 15.93%) are the next rung down.
2026-09-10-replay/whole-shelf/kentucky-region-631b41, vintage 2026-09-10.r. Gap basis: percentage (grounding.gap_basis).None recorded.
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