1/What are you paying for in a bottle of Glen Moray 15? Price its age, name, single-malt style and strength the way Dan Murphy's prices the rest of its whisky, and you land near $119. This week it's $94 for members, about 21% under that going rate for its features.
2/That $119 is built mostly from age, which accounts for 59% of it, with the name on the label at 16%, being a single malt at 14%, and strength making up the last 9%. Age does most of the lifting here, while the other three share what remains.
3/What that going rate can't see is flavour. Glen Moray 15 is at its strongest in orchard fruit and malt, and none of the four features that set the $119, its age, name, style and strength, puts a price on any of it.
4/Aberfeldy 12 sits higher this week at $104, and for a Glen Moray 15 drinker it offers about 97% of what the Glen Moray gives, so more is not always more. At $4.25 a standard drink against about $6.28 for one at the pub, the $94 for members is an easy one to pour and try.
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