1/What does a 23 year old single malt usually cost, and how does it sit beside the bottles nearest it? This is a price guide for Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23: what it usually sells for, the range we've seen, and what a standard drink works out to this week. Running alongside it are the three single malts closest to it, read the same way, so you can see where each one lands before you decide.
2/The guide, bottle by bottle:
3/This week every bottle sits where it usually sells: Glenfiddich Grand Cru 23 at $559, the Balvenie 21 Portwood at $453, Glen Moray 21 at $343, Glen Grant 18 at $214. Nothing here is a special. The lows in the ranges came at Father's Day — Grand Cru 23 $478, Balvenie 21 Portwood $399, Glen Moray 21 $304; Glen Grant 18 has shown the one price, $214, every time we've seen it. So there's a yes for each drinker. After the oldest, with that apricot-and-honey nose and a French cuvée finish, the Grand Cru is $559, or $25.30 a standard drink at home. Watching the per-pour figure, Glen Grant 18 comes to $9.01. And the two in between sit where you'd expect: the Balvenie 21 Portwood, and the creamy, honeyed Glen Moray 21 at $13.41.
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