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Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 5

GOLD MEDAL AND DIPLOMA Won by the Famed BUCHANAN HOUSE OF COMMONS WHISKY. •• Owing to the ravages of the phylloxera in tho favoured districts of Franco," says the London Daily Telegraph, "it is an open secret that there is very little good brandy obtainable, and British exhibitors are hoping that they will be able to induce the Parisians to substitute for it a much more wholesome spirit — Scotch whisky. The French are not unappreciatiye of its qualities, for at the Hygiene Exhibition, in the capital as well as at Troyes, 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 the. southern countries. The Highland comes to us from remote glens, where the purity of the water is unquestionable, and it is distilled from the best malted barley procurable. It is at this stage that the peat which is used for the drying kilns imparts the characteristic, flavour." This high-class whisky is kept at every respectable and well-appointed hoteL It may be procured also fcQJO «»Jei£»«,W&M