Bonhams Responds to "Conspiracy" Accusations

Posted on Monday, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:31 PM

Parody of Bonhams Auctioneers Logo reading

 

You may know that this website has been exposing the mistakes and blunders in Bonhams New York Whisky Auction. It started with a little ruckus last June that forced them to rescind a bottle and delete it from their website.

 

The latest Whisky Advocate magazine contains an article that seems to defend the auctioneer. We can't reprint it here (we do very much advise subscribing to the magazine though), but here's our fact-checking review of the Whisky Advocate article and Bonhams' responses in it.

 

If you don't see something wrong at these auctions, you're high on "Circa 1886" crack.

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