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Bottles We Love to Hate

We have all seen them, the bottles that we add to our collection since we find it cute or unique
only to find out later the bottle is common and keeps appearing everywhere. Our bottle club
in the Pacific Northwest has monthly meetings and every meeting has bottle raffles. Inevitably
at the end of every raffle there are the two or three bottles left and everyone is dreading
having their ticket drawn - do I really need another one of those? The Pasha bottle falls into
this category and is always one of the last ones taken. It is a nice
bottle, unique (and I have seen it listed more than once as rare on e-
bay). I was excited when I added one to my collection, but how many
do I need? Everyone in our club has at least 2 or 3 of these bottles and

they appear to be reproducing in the club bottle collection.
Another bottle that everyone appears to also have two or
three of is the Chambord liquor (not so in NZ – Ed.). It too
is a unique bottle that comes in many variations (Jacquin
labels, Chambord labels, different contents, different lids)
and it too keeps turning up at the end of our raffles (I
personally have 10 of these in a few variations). The other
two unique bottles that also seen to always end up at the
end of the raffles are the Vandermint Tulip bottle and the
Cheri-Suisse steeple bottle. All of these bottles make nice
additions to a collection, but after you have three of each
you just hope not to have to see another at the end of the
raffle when your ticket is pulled!
Ron Gabbard

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tullamore dew

Have you seen these three new
Tullamore Dew jugs? Each contains
50ml of 40% Irish Whiskey. The only
difference in the three is the colour of
the tops, blue, black and green.