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On the subject of fakes, I also came across this picture posted by a Russian
collector.

I believe that the labels on these would fool most collectors (as would some but not
all of the Absolut labels). The give-away is not that they are all in the same type of
bottle. That is not at all uncommon, but the date, 02.06.10, on each bottle is a give-
away. It is highly unlikely that this number of bottles, from maybe 14 different
distilleries, would have gone down the bottling line on the same day.

Finally the three NZ Old Hokonui bottles
shown are not the genuine article as they
do not contain genuine Old Hokonui
moonshine. They each contain Wilsons
whisky and, in fact, two of them have the
Wilsons name on (the other one says
M.L.T - Mataura Licensing Trust). There
are a number of other Old Hokonui fakes
out there, including a few ‘home made’
ones but there is only one version of
genuine Old Hokonui in miniature.

Please contact me if you have photos of
any more fakes.

David Smith

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