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older rarer whiskies #1

My name is Gary Carvey, I am retired and I live in New Zealand on the beautiful Kapiti Coast.

I have been collecting mini bottles since 1995, beginning with anything I saw and very soon realising
I had to specialise because of the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions out there.
I got some advice from David Smith and from that conversation I chose the whiskies of Scotland and
nothing from anywhere else. My collection consists of single malts, vatted malts, blended, ceramics,
micro minis and gift packs.
Here is a selection of some older rarer whiskies from the blended section of my collection.

Ambassador has a cork top and was blended and bottled
by Taylor and Fergusson of Glasgow. It was distilled at
Scapa, Kirkwall, The Orkney Islands and is very likely
Highland Park from the 1930’s

On the right is a bottle from English bottler, Addison & Co
from Preston in Lancashire. This Special Reserve is an
example of one of one of several of their whiskies that
became available in the 1960's.

The next one on the left is from Arthur Booth Ltd,
established 1885 in Glasgow. This bottle is a liqueur type
whisky bottled at ten years old. It has a cork top and a dark
brown bottle with a scooped shape base. It dates from the
1930’s

The bottle on the right is from James Sword of Glasgow,
Established 1810, a company which put out many different
brands in the earlier part of the last century. Bank Note
Liqueur Light Bodied has a cork top and a brown bottle with
a flat base. The label is wavy top and bottom and shows the
Scotch to be 75°proof. This bottle is another from the 1960's.

Gary Carvey

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