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this & that & cover bottleS

Depite our having three new NZ Whisky Straights on the cover, this issue is very heavily slanted
towards ceramic bottles. I can only work with what I have been sent and this time that is mainly
ceramics. GREAT ceamics both old and new. Read on and enjoy old John DeKuyper, Carioca and
other 1930’s/40’s bottles from David Spaid, many never pictured before in any publication, new
Glenfiddich jugs from Dave Allen, new ceramics from Global Whisky & Spirits of Germany and a
largely ceramics article from new member, Thad Vadims.

The three cover bottles were found by Peter Bonkovich. Peter
only managed to get one set but is attampting to get more. Not
cheap at $45 for the three but not expensive either for such old
malts.

As you can see, these are some of the last stock of single malt
from the Dunedin Distillery, better known as Wilson’s. These
were bottled by the New Zealand Whisky Company. The three
bottles are: South Island Single Malt, 21yo, 40%, 50ml
1990 Single Malt Cask Strength, 23yo, 62.1%, 50ml
Doublewood Master Blended Whisky , 15yo, 50ml, 40%

Peter continues to find a few bottles of interest on Ebay. Unfortunately, yet again, I have had to defer
an ‘As Seen on Ebay’ article to a later edition. If you do find anything (on Ebay, Trademe or any other
auction site) please do send a photo and the price the bottle sold for. I am happy to attribute such
contributions to you even when I write the actual article.

David Spaid sent us the picture on the right.
This is a give-away and so does not fit in with
his article (pages 15-20). There is a cork in
the back of the lady’s head. GREAT bottle
David.

Erica has updated the club stock list. See
http://www.minisnz.com/pnmbcforsale.html
There are hundreds of bottles for sale and
they are cheaper if you are a club member.

The AGM went well, although it was sparcely
attended. There are not a lot of changes:
President: Colin Ryder rydercj@xtra.co.nz
Vice president: Ken Chin Kenchin@ihug.co.nz
South Island VP: Vacant Vollenteer wanted!
Auckland VP: Peter Bonkovich peter_bonkovich@actrix.co.nz
Treasurer: Ian Butcher poppa.chopper@clear.net.nz
miNiZ Editor & Webmaster: David Smith minizv@gmail.com
Secretary: Errol Brassett trc.nz@xtra.co.nz
Supplies Officer: Erica Mulder erica.mulder@xtra.co.nz
Publicity Officer: Peter Bonkovich peter_bonkovich@actrix.co.nz

The club’s finances are reasonably healthy now. For the first year for quite a long time income is now
exceeding expenditure (by about $300 in the last year). This is all due to the switch to delivering
miNiZ electronicly to more and more members. Remember, we lose money on all paper copies. If
you don’t need the paper switch to electronic and save yourself some money. The quality is also
better.
David Smith

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