Friday night, a mate's kitchen. Someone reaches past the everyday bottles and pulls down the Tamdhu 15. We pour. It's good. Then comes the question that always comes: what else does this, for less?
Here's the short answer, and it's close to home. The bottle most like Tamdhu 15 comes from the same distillery. Tamdhu 12, $98 for members, gives a Tamdhu 15 drinker about 91% of what their own bottle does. Same house. Lower price.
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