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Ireland is the tightest-priced shelf on the whole floor

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1/Ireland is the tightest-priced shelf on the floor. Twenty-eight bottles, not one running more than about a sixth over its own CE 360 jury: no trophy bottle, no wild premium, just a narrow band from $55 to $132.

2/The fair end is the big pour-brands. Dubliner at $66 sits almost dead on its number, Paddy behind it at $58 the 700 and $85 the litre, with Proper No. Twelve's litre bang on fair at $91.

3/The words read Irish through and through: pot still and stout, apple and raisin, that soft cereal buzz off the pooled reviews. Approachable whiskey, priced approachably.

4/Even the dear end stays modest. Redbreast 12 at $136 is the priciest against its jury, a sixth over; Teeling Single Pot Still ($97) and Bushmills Black Bush ($71) a shade less. The steepest gap here would barely register on the Scotch wall.

5/So Ireland is the shelf with no surprises: tight, fair and easy to read top to bottom. Everyday Irish, the $66 Dubliner or the $58 Paddy? (Dan Murphy's, this Thursday.)

Sources

generate_cycle.py replay payload, artefact 2026-08-06-replay/whole-shelf/ireland-country-d27757, vintage 2026-08-06.r. Gap basis: percentage.
Coverage: 28 of 28 members observed (100%). Price band $54.99-131.99, median $76.97; CE 360 mean-avg about $73.55. Words: irish, pot, whiskey, apple, stout, raisin.
Hot 5 (smallest premium, all observed): Proper No. Twelve 1L $91 (0.01% over); Dubliner $66 (0.11%); Paddy 1L $85 (0.49%); Finnlaighs $72 (0.89%); Paddy 700mL $58 (0.95%).
Cold 5 (largest premium): Proper No. Twelve 700mL $67 (15.51% over); Redbreast 12 $136 (15.14%); Tullamore Dew $61 (13.38%); Bushmills Black Bush $71 (13.00%); Teeling Single Pot Still $97 (12.36%).

Omissions

Full coverage: 28 of 28 members priced live, no carried prices to name.
Proper No. Twelve appears at both ends by size: the litre bang on fair ($91, 0.01%) and the 700mL the coldest on the shelf ($67, 15.51%). A size split, not a contradiction, and noted rather than smoothed.
The Sources cut is the aggregate's stored top/bottom movers, not the full 28-bottle ranking.

Notes for reviewer

Replay draft on 2026-08-06.r; may_publish: false and never flips in replay.
'Hot'/'cold' are value-position labels only; the narrow spread is a current cross-sectional read, not a claim about prices over time.

Format note

Whole Shelf, Ireland (country), vintage 2026-08-06.r. Gap basis percentage. Coverage 28 of 28 members priced live (100%). ce_gap_pct is each bottle's premium over its own CE 360 mean; 'hot' is closest to fair value. Sources holds the ranked cut.

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