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Saturday 14 July, 6.30pm, Pot Luck Dinner @ Ken & Marlee Chin’s, 29 Norton Park Avenue,
Fairfield, Lower Hutt

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Sunday 28 October, 12.30pm, Pot Luck Lunch @ Errol & Karen’s, 39 Pembroke Street, Tawa

December lunch - TBA

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Sunday 20 January 2019, 6.00pm, Annual Barbeque @ David & Rosie Smith’s, 11 Trevor Terrace,
Paremata

Currently only Wellington meetings are being scheduled, our members elsewhere
are invited to organise a meeting. Let us know where and when well in advance and
we will be happy the publicise it.

The 2019 AGM will be on the 17th February. There will be a barbecue lunch starting
at 12.30 with the AGM about 2.30 @ Colin & Di Ryder’s, 20 Prospect Terrace,
Johnsonville, Wellington.

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US$1.2m for Two Bottles!

Le Clos, a Dubai Airport based retailer, has set a world record for the most expensive bottles
of whisky ever sold, having sold two 60 year old 1926 bottles of The Macallan for US$1.2
million. No these are not miniatures but I’m sure many of you Scotch collectors will be
interested anyway.

The two extremely rare bottles of The Macallan feature
labels commissioned from British artist Sir Peter Blake
and Italian artist Valerio Adami. Each created a label
especially for these bottles, making them highly sought
after by art-lovers as well as whisky collectors.

These bottles originally retailed for £20,000, with the last
known individual bottle sold by Christie’s Auctions in
2007 for US$75,000. These bottles were sold to a private
collector for US$600,000 each. Obviously someone with
more money than sense. They are the most expensive
single (750ml) bottles of whisky ever sold.

The whisky was aged for 60 years in ex-Sherry oak
barrels before being bottled and released in 1986 &
1993. Of the 40 bottles produced, 12 were given to each
of the artists – lucky them!

David Smith

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