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Nobody has sent any formal articles for this issue so the ones you see are left over from the 100
edition (although not because they are poor articles but because space and the number of articles
from the same collector were the governing factors). However, I have received lots of bottle photos
and snippets of information from many of you, so I have got lots to show you in this opening article. I
have also received photos and information from Graham Ramsay & David Spaid to format into
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articles. PLEASE, I need articles for miNiZ104 – deadline the 1 April.

The cover bottles are from Frank Wynn. Frank writes: The bottle on the left, Dunedin Distillery
Doublewood, is produced by The New Zealand Whisky Company. This 10 year old whisky produced
a lot of publicity for the company in 2013. William Grant and Sons (makers of Glenfiddich) objected to
the term Doublewood. However the Kiwis say they used the term before Grants copyrighted it in New
Zealand. The lawyers will now make more money than the distillery if it goes to court. One unusual
aspect of the label is that it does not show the alcohol strength which I thought was illegal in New
Zealand (another unusual aspect of this bottle is that there is no seal of any sort on the cap – editor).
The other bottle, Agwa Coco Leaf liquor, is unusual in that the base material was grown in Bolivia. It
is not often, if at all, we have Bolivian liquors in New Zealand. The liquor is actually made in
Amsterdam which takes some off the gloss of the story. This is a plastic 50ml bottle and 60 proof.

In miNiz102 we showed a number of Armenian bottles that
are being sold in NZ, from MAP Company of Armenia.
Mikhail Maddar has sent us these pictures which show
some, if not all, of the other bottles in the series. All contain
100ml of Samvel 5* Armenian brandy. Above we have the
Bull, Donkey, Dragon, Elephant (different to the one we
showed you last issue), lion and rooster. Starting the next
page we have the Mule, Swan and Lady’s Shoe. These are
all made from a moulded glass bottle with blown glass add-
ons. The bottle to the right (both sides shown) is ceramic
and also contains brandy.

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