While renovating his Keyport, New Jersey house this past September, Ron Lewert found a stash of Gilbey’s Dry Gin – 12 bottles – hidden in a crawlspace in the roof. The gin was as old as the house, built more than 90 years ago, and as correspondent Lee Cowan found out, old spirits are, indeed, rising from the dead, becoming a popular ingredient at auctions and “speakeasies” catering to pre-Prohibition Era tastes.
