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Otago Witness, Issue 1994, 12 May 1892, Page 12

fiOLD MEDAL AND DIPLOMA v3T Won by the Famed BUCHANAN HOUSE OF COMMONS WHISKY. " Owing to the ravages of the phylloxera in bhe favoured districts of France," says the London Daily Telegraph, "it is an open secret that there is very little good brandy obtaiuable, and British exhibitors are hoping that they will be able to induce the Parisians to substitute for it a much mqre wholesome spiritScotch whisky. The French are not unappredative of its qualities, for at the Hygiene Exhibition, in the capital as well as at Troves, in the champagne country, they awarded GOLD MEDAL and DIPLOMA to purveyors of Scotch whisky to the House of Commons, Messrs James Buchanan and Co. (Glasgow and London). This firm was also highly successful at Glasgow and Melbourne. Scotch 'whisky may be classed broadly into * Highland malts' . and ' raw grains,' with perhaps a third variety called ' Lowland malt,' which is made in tho southern countries. The Highland comet to us from remote glens, where the parity of the water is unquestionable, and it if distilled from the best malted barlpqr pzoennble. It is at this stage that the pen* which is used for the drying Ulnf tawfe the ehanoteristio flavour." This Ugh-dus whiiky Is kept at eveo7respeitebleti^«tlH«jM6dho|BL II m *jJfJ? ro s2*_!! ia *"■ *• JSffiHjM fcndipimiMnfcu*r -" * t~~S*