If Craigellachie 19 is the bottle you reach for, the closest thing to it at a smaller outlay comes from its own distillery. Craigellachie 13, at $111, gives a Craigellachie 19 drinker about 87% of what the 19 itself does. Same hand, same house, a good deal of the same character, for less than a third of the money. That is the spine of this piece, and it is worth sitting with before we talk about anything else.
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