Antiquery (sp?) anyone have any info?

[hearts151]

A Regular in the pub I work in was telling me he has 4 bottles of it that he got 25 years ago and they are 20-30 years old making the oldest distilled in the 1950s!
A quick google seemed to suggest it is a liquer? Does anyone else have any information about this whisky and what it's worth might be (said i'd find out for him)

Thanks
Ryan

[Ganga]

Here is some information on a particular bottling of Antiquary. http://www.whiskymag.com/whisky/brand/a ... ky327.html You could try to do a google search on the specific ones that you are asking about.

[Onefortheditch]

The Antiquary is made by the Tomatin Distillery and can be bought in 8YO, 12YO, 21YO and 1977 expressions. It is a blend I like very much and I have a bottle open just now.

[FirewallXL5]

A Regular in the pub I work in was telling me he has 4 bottles of it that he got 25 years ago and they are 20-30 years old making the oldest distilled in the 1950s!
A quick google seemed to suggest it is a liquer?

Not a liqueur but a respectable de-luxe blend in a nice diamond shaped bottle.

If your pub regular friend got them 25 years ago then they predate the Tomatin/Japanese connection as the brand was only sold off by Utd Distilllers in 1995. Prior to that it was a DCL (Distillers Coy.) brand which goes way back. (I had an empty bottle at one time which I meant to convert into a table lamp but never did!)

J&W Hardie (named on the label) were licensees of BenRomach distillery and a subsidiary of Wm sanderson (VAT69). The DCL structure was complicated. In those days I don't think the whisky ever carried an age statement so it's unlikely to be much more than 8 years old. In the 1980's it was revamped & acquired a 12yo age statement.

Unlikely to have great collector value I'd have thought....