1/Friday night, the heavy glass comes off the bench. The Balvenie DoubleWood 12 is $105 at Dan Murphy's. Twelve years, floral and honey on the nose, silky with nutmeg and dried fruit. For a Macallan Sherry Oak 12 drinker it gives about 87% of that bottle, for 66% of the price.
2/Side by side, the Macallan Sherry Oak 12 is $160 this week; it usually sells around $170. What a Macallan drinker gives up with the Balvenie is mostly the name on the label and some of the sherry and dried fruit. Against that usual $170, the Balvenie is about 59% of the price.
3/Here's the yes for each. The Macallan Sherry Oak 12, $160: sherry, Christmas cake, old leather, still the one for its fans. The Balvenie DoubleWood 12, usually around $100 and $105 this week: the one for every other night. We've seen it between $98 and $105.
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