1/Two whiskies at their own floor this week, and the shelf's oddest near-miss. Proper No. Twelve, the Irish blend, is $59. The Chita, Suntory's Japanese grain whisky, is $99, down from the $111 it carried in mid-September. Both plain shelf tickets, neither a members' deal.
2/Why they sit side by side: the profile model reads them as close kin. On make-up The Chita and Proper No. Twelve land in nearly the same spot, a cosine of 0.97. An Irish blend and a Japanese grain whisky, one broadly shared character.
3/The value model does not buy it. On worth-for-money it rates the two nowhere near each other. So take this as shared profile, not equal standing: different countries, different styles, one surprising overlap in the glass.
4/Put them together and the pair is $158, the cheapest the combination has been across the weeks I've tracked it; its usual sits near $168. Both bottles are at the low end of their own range right now. A bundle, if you want the two.
Pour one after the kitchen's quiet and it just unfolds: honeyed and silky, toffee and toasted marshmallow, a little nougat and maple. It's rated 96, and at $124 this week it's about what it usually sells around. That's $5.61 a standard drink, against $6.28 for a pint at the pub.
What does a pour at home cost? Jameson Black Barrel is rated 91, $70 this week and it usually sells around $68. That's $3.16 a standard drink against $6.28 for a pint at the pub. Butterscotch, treacle, toasted nuts, scorched coconut, a vanilla-and-raisin finish. Give it a pour?
For once, two separate reads agree on the Glen Grant 10: it is cheap. At $81 it sits under the floor its own cohort would set, and at the very bottom of its own price history. When the value model and the bottle's own record line up, that is rarer than either read on its own.
Here's a pairing you'd never shelve together: The Whistler Double Oaked, an Irish blended whiskey, and Tamnavulin Double Cask, a Speyside single malt. Different countries, different styles. The engine ranks them second-closest of anything on the shelf.
An Irish blend and a Scottish single malt. Nobody on whisky-Twitter would ever put those two on the same shelf. The engine puts them eighth-closest in the whole catalogue: Teeling Small Batch Stout Cask against Deanston Virgin Oak.
Jameson Black Barrel is an Irish blend. Monkey Shoulder is a Scottish blended malt. Different island, different make-up. The profile model seats them sixth-closest in the whole set anyway.
Whisky-Twitter would never shelve a boutique Irish single malt beside Glenlivet 12. The engine does. It ranks Pearse Lyons Founder's Choice 12 and the Speyside everyone's had as its third-closest pair in the whole catalogue.
310 bottles at Dan Murphy's can be priced per standard drink this week. Cheapest first: Grant's Triple Wood 1 litre at $1.99 a standard drink; the median is $4.16; Dalmore 21 Malt is the highest at $42.68. 235 of the 310 come in under a pint at the pub, which works out at $6.28 a standard drink.
305 bottles at Dan Murphy's can be priced per standard drink this week. Cheapest first: McAllister 1 litre at $2.00 a standard drink; the median is $4.03; Dalmore 21 Malt is the highest at $42.68. 228 of the 305 come in under a pint at the pub, which works out at $6.28 a standard drink.
| bottle | region | latest ticket | read | window price | CE 360° mean | premium | shelf rank | per std drink | drink rank | content |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bushmills 10 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey | Northern Ireland | $78.99 | observed | $78.99 | $54.63 | 30.8% | #24 of 28 | $3.26 | #15 of 28 | 3 |
| Bushmills Black Bush Irish Whiskey | Northern Ireland | $65.99 | observed | $61.00 | $48.16 | 21.1% | #20 of 28 | $2.99 | #13 of 28 | 2 |
| Dubliner Irish Whiskey | $72.99 | observed | $72.99 | $71.95 | 1.4% | #4 of 28 | $2.67 | #7 of 28 | 2 | |
| Finnlaighs Irish Whiskey 1L | $71.99 | observed | $50.39 | $49.78 | 1.2% | #3 of 28 | $2.28 | #1 of 28 | 2 | |
| Finnlaighs Irish Whiskey 700mL | $54.99 | observed | $54.99 | $54.05 | 1.7% | #5 of 28 | $2.49 | #3 of 28 | 2 | |
| Jameson Black Barrel Blended Irish Whiskey | Midleton | $69.85 | observed | $69.85 | $53.97 | 22.7% | #21 of 28 | $3.16 | #14 of 28 | 4 |
| Jameson Blended Irish Whiskey | Midleton | $79.95 | observed | $53.87 | $46.90 | 12.9% | #15 of 28 | $2.53 | #4 of 28 | 2 |
| Jameson Caskmates Stout Edition Irish Whiskey | Midleton | $67.99 | observed | $72.99 | $54.44 | 25.4% | #23 of 28 | $2.81 | #8 of 28 | 2 |
| McConnell's Belfast Blended Irish Whisky | Northern Ireland | $82.99 | observed | $82.99 | $47.85 | 42.4% | #28 of 28 | $2.93 | #11 of 28 | 2 |
| Midleton Very Rare Irish Whiskey | Midleton | $433.99 | observed | $433.99 | $271.31 | 37.5% | #27 of 28 | $19.64 | #28 of 28 | 2 |
| Paddy Irish Whiskey | $57.99 | observed | $57.99 | $57.81 | 0.3% | #1 of 28 | $2.44 | #2 of 28 | 2 | |
| Pearse Lyons 5 Year Old Whiskey | $101.99 | observed | $101.99 | $95.99 | 5.9% | #10 of 28 | $4.29 | #22 of 28 | 2 | |
| Pearse Lyons 7 Year Old Whiskey | $109.99 | observed | $109.99 | $98.77 | 10.2% | #13 of 28 | $4.63 | #25 of 28 | 2 | |
| Pearse Lyons Founder's Choice 12 Year Old Single Malt Whiskey | $131.99 | observed | $131.99 | $127.39 | 3.5% | #7 of 28 | $4.63 | #26 of 28 | 3 | |
| Powers Gold Label Irish Whiskey | Midleton | $69.99 | observed | $69.99 | $53.84 | 23.1% | #22 of 28 | $2.93 | #12 of 28 | 2 |
| Powers Three Swallows Whiskey | $78.99 | observed | $78.99 | $65.49 | 17.1% | #19 of 28 | $3.53 | #18 of 28 | 2 | |
| Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey 1L | $90.99 | observed | $63.69 | $63.07 | 1.0% | #2 of 28 | $2.88 | #10 of 28 | 2 | |
| Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey 700mL | $63.99 | observed | $66.99 | $56.80 | 15.2% | #16 of 28 | $2.53 | #5 of 28 | 3 | |
| Redbreast 12 Year Old Irish Whiskey | Midleton | $123.99 | observed | $123.99 | $79.51 | 35.9% | #26 of 28 | $5.61 | #27 of 28 | 3 |
| Silkie The Legendary Irish Whiskey | $89.99 | observed | $89.99 | $87.48 | 2.8% | #6 of 28 | $3.54 | #19 of 28 | 2 | |
| Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey | $87.99 | observed | $87.99 | $74.55 | 15.3% | #17 of 28 | $3.31 | #16 of 28 | 2 | |
| Teeling Single Malt Irish Whiskey | $111.99 | observed | $111.99 | $101.84 | 9.1% | #12 of 28 | $4.41 | #23 of 28 | 2 | |
| Teeling Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey | Dublin | $96.99 | observed | $96.99 | $65.50 | 32.5% | #25 of 28 | $3.82 | #20 of 28 | 3 |
| Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey | $85.99 | observed | $74.00 | $68.42 | 7.5% | #11 of 28 | $3.38 | #17 of 28 | 2 | |
| Teeling Small Batch Stout Cask Irish Whiskey | $101.99 | observed | $101.99 | $90.39 | 11.4% | #14 of 28 | $4.01 | #21 of 28 | 3 | |
| The Whistler Double Oaked Irish Whiskey | $68.99 | observed | $68.99 | $64.97 | 5.8% | #9 of 28 | $2.81 | #9 of 28 | 3 | |
| Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey | $55.99 | observed | $62.99 | $52.84 | 16.1% | #18 of 28 | $2.53 | #6 of 28 | 2 | |
| Writers Tears Copper Pot Irish Whiskey | $99.99 | observed | $84.00 | $80.00 | 4.8% | #8 of 28 | $4.53 | #24 of 28 | 2 |