1/Two American bourbons the profile model files as neighbours and the value model shoves apart. Blanton's Original Single Barrel, $153. Wild Turkey Longbranch, $67. One engine calls them close; the other won't have it.
2/By flavour make-up they land eighteenth on Blanton's nearest-neighbour list. Close, for a set this size. That is the shape of the profile, mind, not two glasses poured beside each other. Both Kentucky, both around the same young age statement.
3/Then the utility model steps in and ranks the Longbranch one-hundred-fourteenth, not eighteenth. Same rough profile, a wildly different verdict on what each bottle is worth. Eighty-six dollars sit between them.
4/Only one of the pair is cheap this minute. The Longbranch is parked at the floor of its own recent range at $67, no membership deal doing the work. Blanton's holds steady at $153. If you are buying, the timing favours the Wild Turkey.
5/So: a near-match on paper the value model flatly refuses to price alike. Is Blanton's Original worth the extra over the Longbranch, or is the cheaper Kentucky the smarter everyday bourbon? (Both Dan Murphy's, this Thursday.)
2026-08-06-replay/compare-the-pair/blanton-s-original-private-reserve-single-barrel-bourbon-700-49672e, grounded on vintage 2026-08-06.r, window as-of 2026-08-06.Compare the pair, automated light form. Two live tickets and each bottle's own-history position only, no CE 360 bands, no cross-read CEARP, no Welch t-test (the module does not produce them). Closeness is VSM-only: the pair sits 18th by profile (VSM) and 114th by the engine utility model (CE), so it is filed as a profile-similarity / value-divergence piece. Both prices shelf basis; only Wild Turkey Longbranch is at its own floor (quiet_discount), Blanton's is not. Both 700mL.
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