Expert: Paul Wagner - 9/25/2007

Question
Found some old bottles of this in a old farm house Distilled London Dry Gin (British) Shipped by Justerini & Brooks 2, Pall Mall , London, Eng. From 1921 To 1936 do I have anything here?

Answer
Hi Tammy

Yep--you have two bottles of gin that should taste just about as good as they did when they were bottled back then.  Here's the deal:

Distilled spirits like gin don't really change much in the bottle, because the alcohol levels are so high.  They don't go bad, but they also don't appreciate in value.  So yours should be just fine--but not worth a lot more than a current release of the same kind of gin.  

So I would estimate that it's worth about $25-40 a bottle...unless you find an antique bottle collector who is interested in them for the packaging.  You can find out more about that at a website like antiquebottles.com.

Sorry I can't give you better news.

Paul Wagner