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A Compilation of Scotch Malt Whisky Miniature Bottles - BOOK
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I am delighted and honoured to have been asked to write the foreword to this much-anticipated book.
No such book existed and, although one or two attempts have been made to meet the need, I have had to wait over 30 years for the void to be filled! |
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few single malt
miniatures were bottled in the 1970s and fewer still had been bottled
in the preceding
decades. Today, examples of these miniatures are hard to find with the
few
remaining examples being much sought after by a growing number of
collectors.
The 1980s and 90s saw a huge growth in interest in single malts and this was accompanied by a similar growth in the number of single malt miniatures being produced. Far more people, worldwide, now collect miniature single malts than any other type of spirit miniatures. |
‘The ‘Bible’ of the miniature whisky’s’ . . . . . . . Alex Barclay |
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write such a book
as this takes courage and perseverance. Virtually no records on the
production
of miniatures have been kept by the distillers themselves or by the
independent
bottlers who entered the field in the 1980s. Jacky has therefore had to
gain
the information from a handful of collectors who have specialised in
the
collecting of single malt miniatures. She has persuaded many of us to
come forward
with photographs and details of our collections so that this
information could
be available to future generations of collectors. |
‘Absolutely
fantastic – a really useful book – long time coming’... Joe Spencer |
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<>Almost certainly old malt
miniatures,
unknown to most of us at this time, will be found in collections in
Scotland or
in far flung parts of New Zealand or Canada and new miniatures will
appear on a
regular basis to fuel our collecting interest but it will be an easy
task to
add their detail to the great wealth of information included in this
book.
Jacky has worked tirelessly over many months to collect the information included in the book and to ensure its accuracy. She has been helped by many collectors and by distillery owners who have been pleased to allow her to include details of their distilleries and products. Associating miniatures with their distillery of origin certainly adds to the completeness of the book and will be of great help to the many new collectors appearing in emerging markets. We all
know that we can never have
the complete collection but this superb book will now allow us to enjoy
looking
at pictures of, and reading about, the wonderful bottles that grace the
shelves
For that we must thank Jacky for all of her efforts and hard work in making this possible. I am sure that this volume will become a firm favourite amongst all malt whisky enthusiasts for many years to come. The bible for single malt miniature collectors has at last been written. Alex Barclay, Birmingham, August 2007 |
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