Old gems like Ancient Age, Old Charter, brown-label Wild Turkey from theġ980s and five bottles of Old Grand-Dad from back when it was produced by National Distillers and considered superior in taste to its modern Number but still managed to find 23 vintage bottles, including decades. Goal of visiting 100 liquor stores that day.
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and drove as far south as Long Beach, with a On the script he was supposed to be writing. One Monday morning, in the cigar-shaped, 8-by-25-foot office in the Taftīuilding that he shared with an intern, Mr.
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Mr.Īckerman was already a collector of movie memorabilia, and had long had a fascination for objects from a bygone era. A neophyte whiskey drinker at the time - “I had only Holding up dusty bottles as if they were trophy fish they had justĬaught,” he said. “There were these funny photos of guys standing in front of their cars, The much lauded but by then defunct Stitzel-Weller Distillery. Kentucky to search liquor store shelves for old bottles of bourbon from Online article about a group of friends who had specifically flown to Ackerman took up the quest in 2012, after coming across an Though this is a fairly new hobby, it is one already facing its end days,Īs there are simply fewer and fewer undiscovered bottles still out there (Collectors of vintage nail polish, chronicled by The Times in 2014, are Whiskey enthusiast blogs and message boards, such as Straight Bourbon. Use of that exact term, appears on the internet around 2007, mostly on Ackerman, himself a filmmaker by trade, is also a dusty hunter: anĪntique collector who only searches for still-sealed bottles of vintageĪlcohol, usually American whiskey. Me being incredibly vigilant over the last eight years.” “In my mind, this was born of and ultimately the fruit of “I’m thinking, ‘Holy crap! I want this, and I need to get this,’” Mr.Īckerman said. Ackerman had found the booze collection of Cecil B.ĭeMille, the legendary director and producer. With more bottles of bourbon, Irish whiskey and rum, untouched for over a One entire wall had built-in wine turrets, with dusty bottles of wine andĬhampagne lying on their side. There, a modern lockĬode opened the swinging cellar doors, and the two descended a flight of
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There he met his contact, Caroline Debbané, who took him not through theįront door but around to the back of the property. Eventually he reached his destination, a Santa Fe-style dollar estates, everything surrounded by the mountains of the Angeles
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The top of Little Tujunga Canyon on the right side, Middle Ranch, anĮquestrian facility and popular wedding venue, on the left, multimillion He guided his metallic black BMW off the 210 and up the winding road to Kevin Langdon Ackerman had a good lead, so he left his home in the LosĪngeles neighborhood of Beachwood Canyon on a Tuesday morning in August and drove 18 miles northwest to Sylmar, Calif. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stashīy Aaron Goldfarb, 9/29/20, New York Times