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Single malt runs from honest Glen Moray to a world-whisky ceiling

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1/Single malt is the broadest church on the shelf: 108 bottles running from Speyside staples to a New Zealand cask asking two-thirds over its own CE 360 jury. No other category stretches this far across price.

2/The fair end is almost all one house. Glen Moray's Peated, Sherry Cask and Classic sizes sit around two-thirds of a percent over their marks, several at $72, with Glenlivet Founder's Reserve ($66) alongside. A distillery priced honestly across its range.

3/The pooled words are the malt drinker's shorthand: peat and sherry, smoke, chocolate and vanilla, red fruits. The full spectrum, because the category is the full spectrum.

4/The steep end goes global. Dunedin's New Zealand Double Cask tops it at $120, two-thirds over its jury; a bourbon-cask peated bottle at $145 and Amrut's Indian Fusion ($123) each about half again, with Yamazaki 12 ($380) behind. World malts, world premiums.

5/So single malt owns the widest gap between fair and dear: honest Glen Moray at the base, boutique world whisky at the ceiling. Everyday malt, the $66 Glenlivet or a $72 Glen Moray? (Dan Murphy's, this Thursday.)

Sources

generate_cycle.py replay payload, artefact 2026-08-06-replay/whole-shelf/single-malt-whisky-style-7f9623, vintage 2026-08-06.r. Gap basis: percentage.
Coverage: 108 of 108 members observed (100%). Price band $60.00-799.99, median $124.99; CE 360 mean-avg about $142.96. Words: peat, sherry, sweet, smoke, chocolate, malt, vanilla, fruits.
Hot 5 (smallest premium, all observed): Glenlivet Founder's Reserve $66 (0.58% over); Glen Moray Peated $72 (0.65%); Glen Moray Sherry Cask $72 (0.65%); Glen Moray Classic 1L $90 (0.65%); Glen Moray Classic Port Cask $72 (0.65%).
Cold 5 (largest premium): Dunedin Double Cask (NZ) $120 (65.18% over); Bourbon Cask Peated Single Malt $145 (58.94%); Amrut Fusion (India) $123 (51.35%); Suntory Yamazaki 12 $380 (39.73%); Hakushu 12 $380 (33.65%).

Omissions

Full coverage: 108 of 108 members priced live, no carried prices to name.
This is the single-malt style scope and overlaps the Speyside/Highlands/Islay/Islands region shelves; the framing here is the malt category's global spread, not any one region.
The Sources cut is the aggregate's stored top/bottom movers, not the full 108-bottle ranking.

Notes for reviewer

Replay draft on 2026-08-06.r; may_publish: false and never flips in replay.
The 65% top-end premiums are current cross-sectional positions (boutique world malts against their own consensus), not movements over time.

Format note

Whole Shelf, Single Malt (whisky_style), vintage 2026-08-06.r. Gap basis percentage. Coverage 108 of 108 members priced live (100%). This is a style-level scope pooling malts across countries; 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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