1/Some bottles are adored by a small circle. Aberlour 14 is the one a whole room gets along with — the dram you can pour for almost anyone and watch them settle in. Let me show you what I mean, because the numbers say it plainly.
2/Aberlour 14 sits among the ten closest bottles for the drinkers of 16 others. The typical bottle manages 9. So where most whiskies are a near-neighbour to a handful, this one keeps turning up close to far more people's favourites.
3/Pour Aberlour 12 Double Cask, Glenfiddich 15 or Glenfarclas 15 and you've already found someone who'd rate Aberlour 14 near the top of their own list. It speaks the same language as all three, which is a rare and easy kind of overlap.
4/In the glass it's rounded and welcoming: jammy peaches, marzipan, vanilla and toffee, with orange cake and honey behind a little polished oak. Sweet and creamy to taste, all oranges and summer berries, then clove, candied ginger and milk chocolate.
| slot | 08-13 | 08-20 | 08-27 | 09-03 | 09-10 | 09-17 | 09-24 | 10-01 | 10-08 | 10-15 | 10-22 | 10-29 | 11-05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| list / member | 159.99 m 140.00 observed | 159.99 observed | 159.99 observed | 159.99 observed | 159.99 m 140.00 observed | 159.99 m 140.00 observed | 159.99 m 140.00 observed | 159.99 m 140.00 observed | 159.99 observed | 159.99 observed | 159.99 observed | 159.99 observed | 159.99 m 140.00 observed |
| basis | mean | median | sd | min | max | range | cv | se mean | latest | own-range pctl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| list | 159.99 | 159.99 | 0.00 | 159.99 | 159.99 | 0.00 | 0.0% | 0.00 | 159.99 | 100 |
| member | 150.76 | 159.99 | 10.37 | 140.00 | 159.99 | 19.99 | 6.9% | 2.88 | 140.00 | 46 |
| moments | m1 mean | m2 var | m3 skew | m4 ex-kurt | 95% band of the mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| list | 159.99 | 0.00 | null | null | 160.0 – 160.0 |
Glenfarclas 15: Christmas cake in a glass. Dried fruit, toffee, a hint of leather, warming spice. Full-bodied and smooth, non-chill filtered. This week it's $185 at Dan Murphy's. The whole story's in this week's piece.
If you love Glenfarclas 15, I'd happily pour you a Tamdhu 12. At $126 it's about 68% of the Glenfarclas price, and for a Glenfarclas 15 drinker it gives you about 88% of what you already enjoy, with citrus, hazelnut and dry sherry. More on Glenfarclas 15 in this week's piece.
Hand a Tamdhu 12 drinker a Glenfarclas 15 and they'd pay about $87 for it, 69% of what their own bottle costs them. The sherry and dried fruit sit close enough to home. Who it suits: a sherried-malt drinker. More in this week's piece on the Glenfarclas 15.
Glenfarclas 15, all dried fruit and Christmas cake, is $7.28 a standard drink poured at home — the kind of pour you sit with rather than rush. This week's piece has the rest.
Like Glenfarclas 15? Aberlour 14 pours jammy peaches, marzipan and vanilla, then slips into milk chocolate and a whisper of coffee. For a Glenfarclas 15 drinker it gives about 88% of the ride at 76% of the price, $140 for members. More in this week's piece.
Glenfarclas 15 is $185 at Dan Murphy's this week, which is about where it usually sits. As a pour at home that works out to around $7.28 a standard drink, a touch over a $13 pint at the pub (roughly $6.28 a drink, since a pint holds about two). There are about 25 standard drinks in the bottle.
| # | candidate | price | CEARP | price − CEARP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aberlour 12 Year Old Double Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $105.00 | $157.06 | -52.06 |
| 2 | Tamdhu 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $98.00 | $156.15 | -58.15 |
| 3 | Glenfiddich 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $139.99 | $153.20 | -13.21 |
| 4 | Tamdhu 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $201.99 | $145.14 | +56.85 |
| 5 | The Balvenie DoubleWood 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $99.95 | $144.58 | -44.63 |
| 6 | GLENFIDDICH 12YO SHERRY CASK FINISH 700ML | $136.99 | $142.50 | -5.51 |
| 7 | Glenfarclas 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $129.99 | $141.20 | -11.21 |
| 8 | Mortlach The Wee Witchie 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 750mL | $158.66 | $138.26 | +20.40 |
| 9 | Aultmore AULTMORE® 12YO Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $115.99 | $135.10 | -19.11 |
| 10 | The Glenlivet 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL | $125.00 | $134.02 | -9.02 |