The Glenlivet 12 is $76 at Dan Murphy's this week. It usually sells around $79, and $76 is about as low as we've seen it. Not a dramatic move, but worth knowing if this is already your bottle.
The Glenlivet has always leaned light, and this 12 is that lightness done well. There's lily, orchid and pineapple up top, the flighty flavours, and under them a thick creaminess that beds them all down so they don't float off. Add a little water and you get mandarin, rose petal, and a small sneeze of white pepper. An improved wood policy has given it more to say than it once had. Simply lovely is the honest summary.
So, the price. It usually sells around $79. This week it's $76, and across what we've seen it has sat between $74 and $80. So $76 isn't a one-off dip; it's the quiet bottom of its own usual range. If you buy this one by habit, buy it this week.
Per pour, that's about $3.44 a standard drink, with roughly 22 of them in the bottle. A pint at the pub runs about $13, near enough to $6.28 a standard drink. A dram of this at home costs you a little over half a pub pour.
Here's another way to read the price. Take the bottles nearest The Glenlivet 12 in flavour, and ask each of their drinkers what this one would be worth to them, each starting from what they already pay for their own. The answers run from $68 to $117. At $76, The Glenlivet 12 sits comfortably inside that span. The drinker who marks it down hardest is the one on the cheaper neighbouring bottle, who'd stop at $68; the one on the richer, sherried end would go all the way to $117. Every drinker whose bottle shares these flavours puts The Glenlivet 12 at nine-tenths or more of their own.
If you want a change, three bottles do much the same job.
The Singleton of Dufftown 12, $69. Soft and faint on the nose, an easy alcoholic-fruit-punch character, no off-notes and no bitterness; a Speyside made for approachability over depth. To a Glenlivet 12 drinker it gives about 99% of what the Glenlivet does, for 91% of the price.
The Glen Grant 10, $66. Light, floral and fresh, with honeyed vanilla, lively fruit, and a hint of marshmallow and hay, closing soft and dry. A clean, straightforward opener. To a Glenlivet 12 drinker it gives about 98% of what the Glenlivet does, for 87% of the price.
Glen Moray 12, $79. A sweet nose of honey, icing sugar, toffee bonbons and orange peel, then barley sugar, soft oak, nectarine and lychee, with vanilla and honey in the finish. It usually sells around $79 too, and we've seen it between $71 and $79. To a Glenlivet 12 drinker it gives about 100% of what the Glenlivet does, for 104% of the price.
So who's it for? If The Glenlivet 12 is already your dram, this is simply your week to restock. If you drink the Singleton for its softness, you'll find The Glenlivet 12 goes the same way with a touch more to it. If Glen Grant 10 is your easy opener, this is the next step up for barely more money. And if Glen Moray 12 is your honeyed bench bottle, the two stand side by side, with The Glenlivet 12 a few dollars under this week.
Pour it, add the drop of water, and see if the mandarin and rose come out for you.
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