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Otago Witness, Issue 2010, 1 September 1892, Page 32

GOLD MEDAL AND DfPLOMA Won by the Famed BUCHANAN HOUSE OF COMMONS WHISKY. "Owing to the ravages of the phylloxera in the favoured districts of France," 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 unappreciative 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, whtre the purity of the water is unquestionable, and it in distilled from the best malted barley procurable. 1% ia at this ptage that the peat which fa used for the drying kiln* impart! the characteristic flavour." This high-olaM whisky v kept *t every respectable and weU-*ppointed hotoL 14