Head to head · same category, comparable price
Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years vs Glenfiddich 12 Year Old
Glenfiddich 12 Year Old is the cheaper bottle and the dearer whisky: £136 a litre of pure alcohol against £131. That inversion is the whole of this comparison.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years | Glenfiddich 12 Year Old | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Single malt | Single malt |
| Origin | Islay, Scotland | Speyside, Scotland |
| Age | 10 years | 12 years |
| Strength | 50% ABV | 40% ABV |
| Cask | First-fill and refill ex-bourbon American oak, ex-wine casks | Ex-bourbon American oak, European oak |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 700 ml |
| RRP observed | £46 | £38 |
| Per 10cl | £6.57 | £5.43 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £131 | £136 |
| Chill-filtered | No | Not stated |
What separates them
Both from Scotland: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years from Islay, Glenfiddich 12 Year Old from Speyside.
Glenfiddich 12 Year Old states 12 years, 2 more on paper.
Cask as each producer describes it: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years in first-fill and refill ex-bourbon american oak and ex-wine casks, Glenfiddich 12 Year Old in ex-bourbon american oak and european oak.
Chill filtration: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years is not, Glenfiddich 12 Year Old does not say.
Colour: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years natural colour, Glenfiddich 12 Year Old silent.
Glenfiddich 12 Year Old: specifications not yet producer-confirmed.
What the price buys
Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years is £8.00 dearer a bottle than Glenfiddich 12 Year Old.
Strength reverses that: Glenfiddich 12 Year Old is £136 a litre of pure alcohol against £131.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years is 14th cheapest and Glenfiddich 12 Year Old 17th cheapest.
Flavour, compared
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| Axis | Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years | Glenfiddich 12 Year Old |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 2 | 0 |
| Sweet | 6 | 6 |
| Fruity | 7 | 7 |
| Spicy | 5 | 3 |
| Woody | 5 | 4 |
| Sherried | 3 | 3 |
| Cereal | 6 | 5 |
| Oily | 7 | 4 |
Furthest apart on oily, 7 against 4. 1 of the eight axes clears 3 points: oily.
Identical on sweet, fruity and sherried.
Each bottle in its own right
Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years
Barley sugar, sea air and citrus at a proper 50%. Unpeated Islay, which surprises people.
Now carries a 10-year age statement — it was NAS 'Scottish Barley' for years and most sites still publish it that way. Every bottle prints a recipe code that unlocks the exact cask-by-cask recipe and barley origin for that batch, batch disclosure no other major Scotch brand offers. Bottled at 50% rather than the usual 40-46%, which the producer states explicitly.
Full record →Glenfiddich 12 Year Old
Pear and green apple over light malt. The reference point for accessible Speyside.
Full record →No overlap in what we list them for: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years for value at 50%, transparency and unpeated islay, Glenfiddich 12 Year Old for first single malt and highball.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years and Glenfiddich 12 Year Old: bruichladdich.com, glenfiddich.com. Figures are what those pages published when we last checked them, on 2026-07-30.