1/What are you paying for in a Tamdhu 12? Price its age, strength, sherry and single malt name the way Dan Murphy's prices the rest, and the features come to $128. This week it's $98 for members, about 23% under the going rate.
2/Where does that $128 go? Age is the biggest share at 42%, then sherry and dried fruit at 25%, strength at 16%, the single malt name at 13%. That 25% reads as oloroso: dry sherry on the nose, sweeter on the palate, jaffa oranges at the close.
3/Its own drinker weights things differently. Age again leads but closer at 36%, sherry and dried fruit right behind at 32%, the single malt name at 25%. Same features as the going rate, just ordered to taste; strength barely figures for them.
4/Spending more? Aberlour 12 Double Cask is $105 for members and gives a Tamdhu drinker about 98% of what the Tamdhu does. More isn't always more. Want the sherry-led single malt, the $98 Tamdhu; want the bourbon-and-sherry double cask instead, the Aberlour.
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