1/For once, two separate reads agree on the Glen Grant 10: it is cheap. At $81 it sits under the floor its own cohort would set, and at the very bottom of its own price history. When the value model and the bottle's own record line up, that is rarer than either read on its own.
2/The surprise is its nearest companion. The engine's single closest match to the Glen Grant, ranked 1st, is Bushmills 10, an Irish single malt rather than a Speyside, at almost the same money, $79. A Scotch and an Irish ten-year-old read as neighbours.
3/Careful what that means. Profile geometry, not two glasses poured side by side. And the Bushmills is no bargain today: it sits mid-way through its own history and over its cohort ceiling, the two reads pulling opposite ways. The cheap one here is the Glen Grant.
4/So at much the same money, the Speyside Glen Grant 10 under its floor, or the Irish Bushmills 10 over its ceiling? Both Dan Murphy's today. If your local shelf tells a different story, tell me the number.
2026-10-08-cycle/similarity-surprise/the-glen-grant-10-year-old-single-malt-scotch-whisky-700ml-b-4f1f87, grounded on vintage 2026-10-08.1, window as-of 2026-10-08.Similarity surprise, automated light form. Two shelf tickets, each bottle's band-position label (not the band numbers) and own-history percentile, and the pair's CE rank; no CE 360° band numbers, no cross-read CEARP, no Welch t-test (light form, and no dossier was read). Divergence axis is country (Scotland vs Ireland), not price tier — the two prices are near-equal ($81 vs $79, ratio 1.09), so price_tier_divergent is false. The agreeing item is The Glen Grant 10: its cohort axis (under its CE 360° floor) and its own-history axis (0th percentile) both read cheap. Bushmills 10's axes disagree (mid own-history, over its cohort ceiling), so it is not presented as the value anchor.
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