The Telegraph's Tim Moore, sat down with a number of experts including Charles Beamish and Sukhinder Singh to discuss how to avoid fakes & frauds while navigating the world of high-end whisky.
... Following the Swiss-hotel scandal, in 2018 Rare Whisky 101 sent 55 bottles of purportedly super-rare vintage Scotch for laboratory testing. The results were dramatic: 21 were deemed fake, including all 10 ‘pre-1900’ bottles. Collectors began to wonder if they could ever again take any antique bottle at face value. But five years on, MacLean doubts that alarming proportion is an accurate reflection of the market: hard-bitten collectors are now more suspicious and discerning. ‘Any bottle over £5,000 ought to attract serious scrutiny,’ says Beamish. ‘There’s a box-ticking exercise: you look at the colour, the top of the seal, the label, the Nll level, and compare them all with a known real bottle.'
