Old Whisky Miniatures Found
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scz4

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2,787 posts

267 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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Found these when looking through some old stuff from my grandparents "archive". They passed away approximately 20 years ago, so must be at least that old, but can anyone age them? No date stamps on any of the bottles.

Safe to sample? smile

p.s. I won't be trying the Cuprinol smile





Edited by scz4 on Thursday 11th July 11:00

sherman

15,048 posts

241 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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Should be perfectly safe to sample. Half the bottles have old labels on them.

Bert Cheese

245 posts

118 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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A nice find, should be fine for sampling though some miniatures have cardboard cap seals that can occasionally affect the malt within.

Not a clue about the ages...sorry smile

hoegaardenruls

1,224 posts

158 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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No older than late eighties, as that's when the marketing team at the distillers came up with the idea of marketing them together

They are all part of a range 'Classic Malts of Scotland', and possibly came in a box together - you can probably still buy them in the same way today..

All decent malts though, and should be absolutely fine to drink if the tops stayed tight.

RicksAlfas

14,354 posts

270 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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hoegaardenruls said:
No older than late eighties, as that's when the marketing team at the distillers came up with the idea of marketing them together

They are all part of a range 'Classic Malts of Scotland', and possibly came in a box together - you can probably still buy them in the same way today..

All decent malts though, and should be absolutely fine to drink if the tops stayed tight.
Sold in two halves now! "Gentle" and "Strong". (Sounds like a shampoo).

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4595/classic-m...

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4594/classic-m...

scz4

Original Poster:

2,787 posts

267 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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RicksAlfas said:
hoegaardenruls said:
No older than late eighties, as that's when the marketing team at the distillers came up with the idea of marketing them together

They are all part of a range 'Classic Malts of Scotland', and possibly came in a box together - you can probably still buy them in the same way today..

All decent malts though, and should be absolutely fine to drink if the tops stayed tight.
Sold in two halves now! "Gentle" and "Strong". (Sounds like a shampoo).

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4595/classic-m...

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4594/classic-m...
Good detective work, thanks.

tog

4,919 posts

254 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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Those look like glass bottles, but in my experience if they're plastic bottles I'd chuck them.