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Scotch, Scotch Everywhere

After years of collecting everything, much like what happens to almost everyone, the realization that my Bottle Room
(or house for that matter) wasn’t going to be big enough to hold everything I could possibly get so I decided to
Specialize. That way (at least this is what I told myself) I wouldn’t overflow my bottle room since there would be
fewer choices (and thus fewer bottles). The decision to specialize came about the same time as I participated in
purchasing a former club members collection. This collector had a very nice selection of Scotches and I had the
opportunity to get quite a few (If I would have known what I was doing I would have gotten some really nice ones
being picked out by a more experienced Scotch collector). At first I started collecting everything. I realized rather
quickly that there is a Scotch made for every occasion (and Building, Company, Street, Mountain..you get the
picture) in (and in many cases outside of ) Scotland. Don’t believe me . Take a look at some of these examples.

Here we have bottlings for a couple of mills, a hotel, a supply company , a police station, and the queens
birthday. Then there are all the whimsical bottles, I assume to sell to tourists, and bottle collectors like
me. Check these out. Even Nessie and Santa have there own bottles (and I’m sure multiple bottles at
that).

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