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18,000 barrels crashing to the
ground. Some of the barrels split
open but many will be
recoverable. I visited this distillery
about four years ago and can
recommend the tour which is
more genuine than most. As this
is only one of 29 warehouses on
the site it should not overly affect
their production.

Want to buy a distillery in Bonnie
Scotland? What about buying
Cutty Sark? No, not the clipper ship in the National Maritime Museum in London, the Scotch
brand. Long associated with London wine merchants, Berry Bros. & Rudd, Cutty Sark was

bought by Edrington group only 8 years ago and now they
want to sell to concentrate on their other brands. They also
want to sell the Glenturret Distillery, one of the oldest in
Scotland.

Now for something really
creepy. Australia is
known for it’s spiders, especially the poisonous ones.
d’Arenberg has unveiled a 50 year old, 100ml, limited
release fortified wine called Daddy Long Legs Extra
Rare. The only thing this spider is poisonous to is your
wallet. You get the bottle and the spider shaped holder
for A$500 but only from the cellar door, so add on the
cost of flights etc.

Progress continues with Miniature Bottle Library,
http://www.minibottlelibrary.com/mbl/index.html We have just completed England (4000+
bottles, although some of those had been incorrectly shown under Scotland). Other recent
additions include Namibia, Faroe Islands, Canary Islands, Azores, Madeira, Channel Islands
& Isle of Man. Other than Namibia these are all self governing territories of other countries, in
fact the Isle of Man has the world’s second oldest parliament (after Iceland).

The next miNiZ may be a little late as I am overseas until mid-October. It is also dependent
on YOU sending me some articles or other material.
David Smith
STOP PRESS: The rest of the barrel ageing warehouse has now collapsed!

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