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It also led some companies – Chivas Brothers, Diageo and Allied Distillers (now part of Chivas) – to reject a number of fake whiskies offered to them.
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This rumbling of discontent led a group of people – chief engineer Dave Broom (then writing for Whisky Magazine), Diageo’s Dr Nick Morgan, archivist Iain Russell (then at Chivas Brothers, now with Glenmorangie) and paper conservator Doug Stone – to launch their own investigation into the affair. Reading matter: Macallan published this guide before the scandal broke But objections were raised, particularly by company archivists, and by some retailers and collectors. Many were duped, some completely, others because they simply wanted to believe that the facsimile in front of them was the genuine article. Some went to auction, fetching (at the time) dizzying sums others were offered to distillers newly eager to explore and exploit their own heritage.
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They were mostly in excellent condition and they didn’t appear in isolation – instead, they came in batches of up to four identical bottles. The trickle of antique bottles had swollen to a flood, and this sudden succession of obscure expressions – previously unheard-of 19th-century bottlings, whiskies from long-closed Campbeltown distilleries – appeared never-ending. As the investigation by the Hotel Waldhaus am See continues, there’s an uncanny sense that we’ve been here before.įrom the mid-1990s, something changed in the rare whisky auction market. The emergence of what appears to be a fake 1878 bottle of Macallan single malt Scotch whisky at a hotel in St Moritz recalls a wider-ranging scandal of the 1990s and the early 2000s.