Start with the price, because it sets the frame. This week Bunnahabhain 12 is **$99 for members** at Dan Murphy's, and it usually sells around that. Across about 26 pours in the bottle that works out at $3.87 a standard drink, so a glass at home sits under a $13 pint at the pub ($6.28 a standard drink). The price guide below puts it against the bottles closest to it.
Now the odd thing about this one. Give a Bunnahabhain 12 drinker a Tamdhu 12 and they get about 93% of what they like. But a Tamdhu 12 drinker, handed a Bunnahabhain 12 the other way, would pay only 72% of what their own bottle costs, marking it down mostly for the name on the label. The swap runs one way.
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