1/I keep coming back to the Glen Moray 21 at $343 — oolong, ripe red fruits, a wisp of Tawny Port, baking spice. If you love it, the Glen Moray 18 gives you about 94% of what the 21 does, for 48% of its price. Here's where the two part ways.
2/Glen Moray 18, $164 at Dan Murphy's — about $6.29 a standard drink. Eighteen years, 47.2%. Warm and rounded on the nose; melon and apricot on the palate, dried hay, a wedge of apple pie à la mode, a backbone of peppery fruit and malt. Delicate and strong at once.
3/What a Glen Moray 21 drinker gives up with the 18 is mostly three years of age. So: yes to the 21 if you're one of its fans, it's still the one for you. And yes to the 18 for every other night — the same house, a little younger. Both earn a place.
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