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SA mealies help whisky win top international award─── 12:39 Sun, 24 Mar 2013
Wellington - South African mealies helped a Cape grain whisky win a top international award.
The Sunday Times reported Bain's Cape Mountain Whiskey - distilled in Wellington in the Western Cape - was awarded top honours as a grain whisky in London by Whisky Magazine. Over three hundred varieties of whisky were assessed in the competition.
The maker of the whisky, Jeff Green, told the paper South African maize makes very good grain whisky and said using mealies was not unusual as most whiskies were actually grain whiskies made from maize or wheat. Green told the newspaper the South African climate influenced the "flavour profile" of the whisky as more flavour was drawn while the spirit matured in oak casks.
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The Sunday Times reported Bain's Cape Mountain Whiskey - distilled in Wellington in the Western Cape - was awarded top honours as a grain whisky in London by Whisky Magazine. Over three hundred varieties of whisky were assessed in the competition.
The maker of the whisky, Jeff Green, told the paper South African maize makes very good grain whisky and said using mealies was not unusual as most whiskies were actually grain whiskies made from maize or wheat. Green told the newspaper the South African climate influenced the "flavour profile" of the whisky as more flavour was drawn while the spirit matured in oak casks.
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