1/Six bottles, one Irish distillery: the Midleton shelf runs from Powers to Midleton Very Rare. Every one of them priced live at Dan Murphy's. The cheap end is the house workhorses, Jameson and Powers. The top end carries the two names that make Midleton's reputation.
2/Set against the 2026-10-01 read two weeks ago, 4 of 6 bottles here now land on a different price or 360° zone, 67%. Two-thirds of a small shelf. Call it a fresh snapshot, not an echo of the earlier one. Plain count, no direction read into it.
3/My yardstick for each ticket: how far its price sits above the consensus its own ten-seat panel settles on, measured in percent. Every bottle here is above that line, so "nearest" just marks the smallest markup, not a deal to grab.
4/Cheap end: Powers Gold Label at $70 carries the slimmest markup, roughly 2% above. Jameson's litre at $80 lands just below 2%. Then Caskmates Stout at $73 and Black Barrel at $72, both within 4%. The genuine Midleton value lives here, all in the $70s.
5/Pooling what the shelf's five reviews keep repeating gives stout, toasted casks, a cantaloupe-and-golden lift. Treat those as Midleton's family signature taken whole, not a verdict on one specific bottle. "Them", "set", "seed" dropped as noise.
6/Top end is prestige. Midleton Very Rare at $434 carries roughly a 35% markup, the widest of the six. Redbreast 12 at $124 sits near 27%. The soundest Midleton buy this week is the $70 Powers, unless I've overlooked one? Share your local ticket.
| End | Item | Price | Gap % | Priced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot 1 | Jameson Blended Irish Whiskey 1L | $80 | +1.50% | observed 2026-10-15 |
| Hot 2 | Powers Gold Label Irish Whiskey 700mL | $70 | +2.00% | observed 2026-10-15 |
| Hot 3 | Jameson Caskmates Stout Edition Irish Whiskey 700mL | $73 | +3.14% | observed 2026-10-15 |
| Hot / Cold | Jameson Black Barrel Blended Irish Whiskey 700mL | $72 | +3.37% | observed 2026-10-15 |
| Hot / Cold | Redbreast 12 Year Old Irish Whiskey 700mL | $124 | +27.49% | observed 2026-10-15 |
| Cold 1 | Midleton Very Rare Irish Whiskey 700mL | $434 | +34.84% | observed 2026-10-15 |
None recorded.
Whole Shelf, scope Midleton (region), vintage 2026-10-15.1, pack region-midleton-aggregate.json. Gap basis PERCENTAGE; ce_gap_pct=(price−CE 360° mean)/price×100, each bottle's premium over its own CE 360° consensus; 'hot'=smallest premium (least over fair value), 'cold'=largest. No bottle sits below its own mean, so 'hot' is not a bargain or a discount. 'Hot'/'cold' are value labels only, never velocity or trend. Coverage 6 of 6 priced live in the 2026-10-15 harvest (100%). Only 6 members, the smallest shelf the format takes, so the Hot and Cold ends share bottles rather than naming six different ones. Repeat scope: last led 2026-10-01-whole-shelf-midleton.md 14 days earlier — CHANGED (4 of 6 bottles moved price or 360° zone, 67%, bar 10%), so it may lead again and the post states what changed. Sources holds the stored top/bottom notable-mover cut, not a separate full ranking.
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