The question a Glenfarclas 15 drinker eventually asks is a simple one: what else tastes like this, and what would I pay for it? Here is the short answer, told both ways. Hand a Glenfarclas 15 drinker an Aberlour 14 and they get about 91% of what they already like. Hand an Aberlour 14 drinker a Glenfarclas 15 and they would pay only 78% of what their own bottle costs, marking it down mostly for sherry and dried fruit. Close in one direction, a shade cooler in the other. Call it a one-way swap.
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