You must have seen some small mini spirit bottles, right? Small, mini version of the small spirit bottle, and filled with some variety of spirit . Generally, these are given away by spiritries for tasting. But some small spirit  bottles are collectible, and the auction price is very high.

Rotem Ben Shitrit, 37 years old this year, is a collector who has owned more than 8,000 bottles of spirits. From the first time he came into contact with the small spirit  bottle, he had a great influence on this exquisite small spirit  bottle. interest of. After more than 20 years of collection, Shitrit has a special room at home, and the four walls are filled with all kinds of small spirit  editions that he has painstakingly collected.

A miniature is a small bottle of a spirit, liqueur or other alcoholic beverage. Their contents, typically 50 ml, are intended to comprise an individual serving. It is a mini bottle that reduces the standard bottle to 50ml or 100ml, or even smaller, and its spirit label, spirit liquid, and bottle shape are the same as the standard bottle.

Miniatures may be used as gifts, samples, or for promotional purposes. In Scotland and the Northeastern United States they are often known as nips and shooters, and referred elsewhere as airplane bottles or mini-bar bottles or travel-sized bottles. They are sometimes available in hotel mini-bars, on trains, and planes, and in other circumstances where serving from a full size bottle is impractical or uneconomical. They are sometimes sold in sets, allowing the comparative tasting of different types of beverage. They are also sold in gift sets with a corresponding drinking glass.

Miniatures are collected by some people, with various clubs and societies serving the hobby.

In 1889, the small mini spirit bottle got the opportunity to be supplied in the aircraft cabin, and officially entered the hotel minibar after 85 years.

By the 1920s and 1930s, small mini spirit bottles began to become popular around the world. At that time, during the Prohibition Period in the United States, spiritries produced small spirit  bottles as sample imports in order to avoid tariffs. And the variety is very large, which has also attracted the interest of many collectors, and the collection of small spirit  bottles has begun.

The Mini Bottle Gallery, the world’s largest collection museum of small spirit  editions, opened in 2003 and is located in the center of Oslo, Norway. Here you can find mini bottles from all over the world, with different themes, there are also chandeliers, ceilings and floors made of mini bottles in the pavilion.

Airport

In fact, the mini spirit bottle is also called “aviation bottle”, which is often seen in liquor stores and duty-free shops in some airport terminals, because the 50ml specification is allowed to be carried on the plane.

supermarket

On the liquor shelves of some supermarkets, you can often see liquor editions on sale, but these liquor editions are generally ordinary spirits, such as jaggery, Absolut Vodka, Jack Daniels and other regular liquors.

Alcohol website

Some spirit websites will have a special section for spirit editions, and there will also be some spirits that are hard to find on the market, but whether you can buy them depends on luck, and the same spirit edition will be different on different websites. For prices and terms of sale, remember to shop around.

local tavern

Some taverns will have their own unique collections of spirit editions, so when you travel, you can go to the taverns frequented by the locals to find something, maybe you can get something in a corner!

It has been more than a hundred years since the spirit edition was born. There are spirit edition collectors and lovers in every corner of the world. They are not necessarily spirit lovers, and they may not necessarily love drinking, but the joy in the collection process is real. . Although the current domestic spirit collection market is still in its infancy, the trend is unquestionable.

If you have also developed a strong interest in the mini spirit bottle because of this article, you may wish to start collecting it! Remember to come back and tell me what your first bottle of spirit was.