Every once in a while I’ll have a conversation about the cost of whisky compared to wine. \u00a0I decided I’d try to do some actual calculations based on prices at my local shops.<\/p>\n
I’ve created a Google spreadsheet (link below) with scotch and wine prices from three of my local shops: BevMo, K&L Wines (Redwood City), and Beltramos. \u00a0All three have online stores, so I collected the data from their web pages. \u00a0For Scotch, I collected all the prices they have listed. \u00a0For wine, I collected only red and white wine prices. \u00a0I then averaged the bottle prices and did some calculations.<\/p>\n
The bottom line<\/strong>: Assuming 5 glasses per wine bottle and 12 glasses for scotch bottle, the price per glass<\/em> between wine and single malt is essentially equal. \u00a0This is especially the case with K&L Wines, whose average price per glass is only 4 cents apart between wine and scotch. \u00a0Bevmo skews toward higher priced scotch, and Beltramos skews towards higher priced wine.<\/p>\n Caveat<\/strong>: \u00a0All these numbers include the higher end bottles, although I have trimmer the extremely high and extremely low priced bottles.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Numbers<\/h3>\n
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