Emmanuel Dron Shares Highlights From His Bottle Collection

Emmanuel Dron, Auld Alliance founder and author of Collecting Scotch Whisky, shares highlights from his bottle collection.

- Weets Goh

With his reputation as a whisky scholar as well as founder and co-owner of one of Singapore’s foremost whisky bars, Auld Alliance, one would expect Emmanuel Dron’s collection to be chock-full of rare Scotch and Japanese whiskies. And it is. He recently auctioned off a collection of Samaroli and Corti Brothers bottlings that included the cult 1966 Bowmore Samaroli Bouquet.

What I did not expect, however, was for Dron to pick four unassuming bottles, three of which didn’t even have labels, as highlights of his collection. There was no special bottling with a crystal decanter and no hand-carved wooden case. Even then, these two rums, one calvados and one Scotch – all with amazing stories to tell, thanks to a combined age of over 750 years – are as precious as they come. “I think I lean towards bottles like these because I love history. I wanted to be an archaeologist when I was young, and each of these spirits is a time capsule. History in a bottle,” says Dron.

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