Expert: Paul Wagner - 1/15/2009

Question
I have a 1968 bottle of seagrams crown royal and was wondering if it was worth anything.

Answer
Hi Peter

Distilled spirits like this really only develop and improve with age in the barrel, not the bottle.  They are so high in alcohol that once they are bottled they don't change much, for better or worse, the way wines do. That means they don't change much in value, either.

With that in mind, your bottle is probably worth more or less what a current bottling of the same product is: about $35-50.  Some of the older bottles have a collectible character--but these are usually with usual shapes.

Sorry that I don't have more exciting news.

Paul Wagner