Chivas 12 or Chivas 18: What Each Costs in Malaysia and Which to Buy

Chivas Regal 12 starts at RM140 and Chivas Regal 18 at RM270, so the 18 costs roughly twice as much. Both come in 750ML and in 1 litre (1000ML, which some people type as 1 liter). Whether the 18 is worth the extra depends entirely on what you are doing with the bottle. Everything below follows our own Chivas Regal range page, with prices read from our shelf on 13 November 2026.

How We Compared Them

We compared the two on what a buyer decides on: shelf price at each size, cost per 100ML, and the job the bottle has to do. Prices were read from our live shop on 13 November 2026, and every character note comes from the brand and trade sources cited on our Chivas range page.

Is Chivas 18 Worth the Extra Over the 12?

Buy the 12 if the bottle is for mixing, for a party, or for drinking through the week. It is the house style at its most straightforward, light and mellow, and it works well in a highball.

Buy the 18 if it is a gift, or if you are drinking it neat and paying attention. It drinks full and complex, with dried fruit, dark chocolate and a long finish, and it is the bottle the brand describes as built for serious gifting.

Look at the 15 first if you are hesitating between them. Chivas XV sits between the two in age and in price, and it comes in the same two sizes: RM200 for 750ML, which is RM60 more than the 12 and RM70 less than the 18.

The simplest way to choose is to picture where the bottle ends up. A tall glass with soda or ginger ale calls for the 12. A short glass with nothing else in it calls for the 18 or the 15. A wrapped box handed across a table calls for the 18. The rest of this page puts real figures behind each of those three pictures, starting with what every bottle costs in 750ML and in 1 litre.

What Each One Costs in Malaysia

Here are all six bottles side by side. The last column is our own arithmetic: the shelf price divided by the volume, shown per 100ML so a 750ML and a 1 litre compare fairly.

Prices read on 13 November 2026. Check the product page for the current price.

The 1 litre is the better value on both. On the 12, the litre costs RM20 more for a third more whisky. On the 18, it costs RM36 more for the same jump. If you were searching for the Chivas Regal 18 1 liter price, it is RM306, and the 12 in 1 litre is RM160.

The gap between the 12 and the 18 is RM130 at 750ML and RM146 at 1 litre. A single 45ML pour, a typical highball measure, costs RM7.20 from the 1 litre of the 12 and RM13.77 from the 1 litre of the 18, a difference of RM6.57 per drink. That is easy to justify for an evening of careful sipping and adds up quickly if you pour it for a crowd.

What the Extra Six Years Actually Buys

Chivas Regal is a blended Scotch. Every expression combines single malts, mostly from Speyside and including Strathisla, the brand’s spiritual home distillery, with grain whisky, and the house aim is consistency and smoothness. That holds for the 12 and the 18 alike, so the difference between them is depth. If you like one, you are very likely to like the other.

The 12 is built with a lighter malt content than the original 1909 blend. In the glass it drinks light and mellow, apple and honey up front with a touch of vanilla and butterscotch, closing short and gently warm. It works well in a highball, or neat for someone still working out what they like in a blended Scotch.

The 18 drinks full and complex: dried fruit and dark chocolate against a polished oak note, balanced spice and fruit on the palate, and a long, warm finish. It is the brand’s best-known premium tier, and it is built for serious gifting.

Put the two glasses side by side and the extra RM130 to RM146 buys a clear set of moves. Apple and honey become dried fruit and dark chocolate. Light and mellow becomes full and complex. A short, gently warm close becomes a long one. Each of those is easiest to notice in a glass with nothing else in it, which is why the 18 earns its price neat and the 12 is the sensible pour for a highball.

Which One for Which Occasion

For Chinese New Year or a corporate gift, the 18. A gift bottle is judged partly on how it looks and what the recipient knows it costs, and the 18 answers both. The 1 litre in the New Pack at RM306 is the larger bottle, so it also looks the more generous of the two. Buying several? The 750ML at RM270 keeps the budget per person lower.

For a party or a bar cart, the 12 in 1 litre at RM160. A litre holds about 22 pours of 45ML, enough for a table of highballs from one bottle.

For drinking through the week at home, the 12 in 750ML at RM140. It suits everyday sipping and stocking the home bar.

For drinking neat at home, start from taste. If you want something light and easy, the 12 and its apple and honey are the pour. If you want dried fruit and dark chocolate, go to the 18. If you are somewhere in between, the 15 below is the bottle made for you.

For someone who already likes the Chivas house style and wants more of it, the 18 is the natural gift. If you do not know their taste, choose the bottle you would be happy to be thanked for, or ask us on WhatsApp.

The Bottle Nobody Mentions: Chivas XV 15 Years

Chivas XV is a 15 year expression finished in former Cognac casks, a secondary maturation that master blender Sandy Hyslop developed to bridge the everyday 12 Year and the more serious 18 Year. It is blended from Highland and Speyside malts at 40% ABV, and it suits drinkers who want more complexity without committing to a premium-tier price.

The price shows the same logic. At RM200 for 750ML or RM220 for 1 litre, it costs RM60 more than the 12 at either size, and RM70 less than the 18 at 750ML or RM86 less at 1 litre. At RM22.00 per 100ML in the 1 litre it sits between the RM16.00 of the 12 and the RM30.60 of the 18.

If the 12 feels too ordinary for the occasion and the 18 feels like more than you want to spend, the XV answers both worries. It also suits a gift on a tighter budget, for someone who likes to try something new.

If you are weighing the 12 against the 18 and cannot decide, try the 15. Both sizes are on the shelf: Chivas Regal XV 15 Years Blended Scotch [750ML] and Chivas Regal XV 15 Years Blended Scotch [1000ML]. For more blended Scotch choices, see our guide to the best blended whisky in Malaysia under RM500.

Also in the Range

Chivas Regal Extra 13 Years is built on the same base blend, each bottle finished in a different cask, at 40% ABV. The Tequila Cask and Bourbon Cask are RM196 in 700ML, the Oloroso Sherry Cask is RM199 in 700ML and RM236 in 1000ML, and the Irish Cask is RM216 in 1000ML.

At the top of the range, Chivas Regal 25 Years Blended Scotch [700ML] is RM950, the price to know if you searched for Chivas 25 years price in Malaysia.

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Last updated: 13 November 2026.