1/The knowledge base has a long-standing line on Dalmore: its aged bottles are priced well above what they actually score. The Australian shelf now carries the exhibit, a 21-year-old at $990.
2/It sits on a range that starts at $130 for the 12-year-old, with the Cigar Malt Reserve in the middle around $231. Same distillery, same sherried house style. The age statement is doing nearly all of the price.
3/The whisky reads rich and cask-driven: sherry, oloroso, dark chocolate, cherries. Good drinking, by the reviews. The standing question is only whether the leap from a $130 12-year-old to a $990 21 is one the glass repays.
4/None of this is a knock on the distillery. The $130 Dalmore 12 is the sane way in and carries the same character. The 21 is the trophy, and the knowledge base's read is that trophies like it cost more than they pour.
2026-08-13-replay/kb-position/dalmore-21-year-old-malt-whisky-700ml-dalmore-brand-abc1a7, current vintage 2026-08-13.r (compared against 2026-08-06.r). CHECK request, not a finding.knowledge-base/whisky/wiki/09-the-review-corpus.md — aged whiskies (21yo+) "increasingly unaffordable ... scored below their cost", with Dalmore named at the £150–200+ tier.articles/ (ARTICLES.md), where the thesis "aged Dalmore is priced above what it scores" belongs as a standing, cross-checked piece.KB position, CHECK request against a standing KB claim, not a finding. Dalmore 21 Year Old Malt Whisky 700mL is first-time in the catalogue between 2026-08-06.r and 2026-08-13.r. The Dalmore (brand) aggregate now spans a $130 12-year-old to a $990 21-year-old; the piece reads this cross-sectionally (a new bottle listed, NOT a reprice of an existing one) and does NOT quote the band-shift percentage or the CE 360 mean, per the format's caution on tiny (n=3) categories. Surfaced short-form by the cycle; a human may promote it to a durable article in articles/.
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