FAMOUS WHISKY TASTER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 457, 6 May 1909, Page 4

FAMOUS WHISKY TASTER.

MAN WITH A “GOBDEN” NOSE. Broken-hearted over the prospect of Kentucky going dry, Alfred J. Bamphear, “the man with the golden nose,” is slowly sinking, and physicians say death is only a matter of a few hours. By reason of his nose, Bamphear became years ago the most famous whisky and liquor expert in the world, and on this marvellous proboscis has hinged some of the biggest whisky transactions ever known. But now that State-wide prohibition has practically girdled the South, and with every indication pointing to the fact that the temperance wave will hit Kentucky within a few short months, Bamphear realises that his occupation is fading away, and relatives and physicians who have watched his gradual decline from day to day say that no illness of any consequence has seized him, but that he is broken-hearted over the future of the liquor industry. Blindfolded, with a half-dozen or more bottles of whisky in front of him, Bamphear can tell just how old each brand is and where it was made, provided it is Kentucky whisky, and because of this remarkable sense of smell he atnasfed a fortune years ago. His ability was recognised by distillers, and he was sent by the Government to the Paris Exposition as a representative of the Bourbon whisky industry.