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new new zealand, this & that

Our cover bottles this month were found by Frank Wynn. They are a pair of new NZ bottles from
Scapegrace Gin, Small Batch and Small Batch Gold. I’d never heard of them and so looked up their
web site:

“Two guys from New Zealand who didn’t know each other until one married the others sister and then
they did. A year sitting in bars and lounges discussing how they always wanted to make their own
gin. This is how two brothers-in-law and a part time musician got into a lot of debt and created a gin
that won gold in London and San Francisco. 12 botanicals, nature's wild apostles. Water, torn from
the earth 80 years after it was hurled down on New Zealand's Southern Alps. A whisky still, 19th
century, stumbled upon in a long abandoned shed. These are our ingredients.”

Glengarry is the distributor so NZ members should be able to get them.

I have just returned from 6 weeks in the US,
including going to the Midwest Show in St. Louis.
Ron Gabbard has covered this in his article and I
have a article on the Friday night auction. One thing
of note is that this was probably the most
international show I have been to with collectors from
at least 15 countries. It also had some of the
cheapest ceramic bottles I have seen, would you
believe $3/$5 for Ski Country? In the article,
Collectors Decanters & Steins, where I visited the
home of Ski Country, I neglected to say that the
prices there have not been seen elsewhere for
decades!
Members Rotem Ben and Pete Gabbard

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