> > Ya, Crown Royal is a very good rye...
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> I realize that I might just be splitting hairs for some of you, but I
> think it is important for all of us to have a certain level of
> knowledge and understanding about the products we discuss so that we
> don't haphazardly loose track of things. There was a time in Britain
> when any spirit was generically referred to as "brandy", and we
> definately don't want to go there :->
Yes this is splitting hairs, but in Canada it has become cultural to call
'whisky' rye. i.e could I have a rye and coke. In the Canadian liqour stores
you won't find a Canadian Whisky section, it's actually called Rye. For
example champagne is a sparkling wine but when it's from the Champagne region
it's called champagne. There's no champagne grape, the majority is made from
Pinot Noir. So is every sparkling wine made from Pinot Noir a
champagne...obviously no. Recently, the government of Canada struck a deal
with the European Union that they will protect "Rye Whisky" as a distinctive
product of Canada in exchange for protecting regional wine names from Europe.
So no Canadian sparkling wine can ever be called champagne. Basically, it all
breaks down to branding and Mexico has it's tequila, the US has bourbon and
Canada has it's rye. Whether this is accurate in the blending mash, who knows
but rye has long been associated with Canadian Whisky and it has evolved into
a marketing and cultural issue.
In a Canadian bar if you order whisky and coke we know you're American right
off the bat.
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Re: Question about Crown. - 2004.01.05, 15:05 - doneil 