1/Who drinks this? The way to answer it is to look at whose glass it sits closest to. Aberfeldy 12 turns up among the ten closest bottles for the drinkers of 29 other whiskies. The typical bottle manages that for 9.0. So this is a malt a wide spread of drinkers keep within arm's reach, not one that stays in its own corner. It reads the part, too: fresh and floral, honey and vanilla over a malty base, with an easy, orange-marmalade finish. Easy-going company, and clearly it keeps a lot of it.
2/Whose drinkers have it nearest, and what they'd pay for it:
3/So where does this week sit? Across the drinkers of the bottles nearest it, the answers run from $69 to $99. Each of those is what that set of drinkers would pay for Aberfeldy 12, starting from what they pay for their own. This week it's $104, a touch above the top of that band; it usually sells around $104, so that's its own level. For Glengoyne 10 and Glengoyne 12 drinkers, who land in the $90s, it's close to their mark. For The Deveron 12, Glen Moray 12 and The Singleton of Dufftown 12 drinkers, sitting lower, a taste first makes sense. At $4.71 a standard drink it's a pour under a pint at the pub, which runs about $6.28 a standard drink.
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