If you drink Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23, the question is simple: is there anything close to it that asks less? There is, and it comes from the same still house. Glenfiddich Gran Reserva 21, $328, gives a Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23 drinker about 86% of what their own bottle does.
Start with the bottle itself. Grand Cru 23 spends its years in American oak with a small number of sherry casks, then takes up to six months in French cuvée wine casks to finish. The nose is canned apricots in syrup, toasted marshmallows, apple blossom and honey. The palate is fuller: pears, vanilla, freshly sawn timber, warm white bread, caramel, cloves and milk chocolate, with toffee and instant coffee lingering at the end.
Now the price, which is where most of this turns. Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23 is $511 at Dan Murphy's this week; it usually sells around $559, and the figure has sat between $478 and $559. Spread across about 22 standard drinks in the bottle, that is $23.13 a pour at home, against about $6.28 a standard drink for a $13 pint at the pub. The numbers sit there side by side; where the line falls is yours to draw.
What would the drinkers of the bottles nearest it pay, each starting from what they pay for their own? A Glen Moray 15 drinker would pay about $70 for Grand Cru 23, around 72% of what their own bottle costs them, marking it down mostly for being older than theirs and for its wine-cask fruit. The other way round, a Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23 drinker puts Glen Moray 15 at about 66% of their own bottle, marking it down mostly for being younger than theirs and that same wine-cask fruit. Across the drinkers of the bottles nearest it, the answers run from $70 to $577. At $511, this week's price sits inside that range.
Three bottles near it are worth naming.
Tomintoul 25, which usually sells around $733, brings peaches, honey, vanilla and ripe apples over a full body. To a Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23 drinker it gives about 76% of what their own bottle does, for 143% of its price.
Glen Moray 21, usually around $343, leans on oolong, ripe red fruits, baking spice and caramel across a creamy palate. To a Grand Cru 23 drinker it gives about 75%, for 59% of the price.
Tomintoul 21, usually around $369, is sweet floral fruits, old-fashioned boiled sweets and almondy vanilla on a long finish. To a Grand Cru 23 drinker it gives about 77%, for 67% of the price.
So who is each of these for? If Grand Cru 23 is already your bottle, $511 is this week's price, and nothing here asks you to move off it. If you want most of what it does for less, and from the same house, Gran Reserva 21 at $328 is the one to reach for, with its toffee, dried fruits and rum-cask sweetness. A Glen Moray drinker curious about the French-cask style can see from their own $70 answer what they would weigh before trading up. And if the longer, drier Speyside style is what you are after, Tomintoul 25 or Tomintoul 21 will do the job.
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