GOLD MEDAL AND DIPLOMA Won by the Famed BUCHANAN HOUSE OF COMMONS WHISKY. 11 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 or> fcaiuable, and British exhibitors are hoping thafc they will be able to induce the Parisians to sub* stitute for it a much more wholesome spine— .Scotch whisky. The French are not unappreciative of its qualities, for at the Hygjene Exhibition, in the capital as well as at Troves, m the champagne country, they awarded GOLU SmfiFLl DIPLOMA to irajwi? 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 Slassed broadly into ♦Highland malts' and ' raw grains,' with perhaps a third variety called ♦ Lowland malt,' which is made in the southern countries. The Highland comet to us from remote glens, whwe the purity of tho water is unquestionable, and it it distilled from th« best malted barley procurable. It it at this atage that the pea* which it used for the drying kiln* imparti the eharaeterittie flavour." This hifh-dast whitky it kepi at every respectable and weUwtppoinUd hotel. II mar be proo<u»4 al*o fo» &• b&H ifef
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Otago Witness, Issue 2013, 22 September 1892, Page 32
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