If The Glenlivet 18 is your bottle, here is the question worth asking: what sits nearest to it for less money? The answer comes from the same distillery. The Glenlivet 15, $125 for members, gives a Glenlivet 18 drinker about 95% of what their own bottle does. Same house, half the outlay, nearly all the whisky.
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