Catalogue information

LastDodo number
7421315
Area
Alcoholics / beverages
Title
Amrut double cask
Brand
Brewer / bottler
Collection / set
Number in collection
175
Type of drink
Region / regional beverage
Raw materials / ingredients
Fermentation
Alcohol percentage
16
Content
4 cl
Number produced
15
Type of packaging
Theme
Crop year
Distillation date
Cask info
Year of bottling
Month of bottling
Day of bottling
2012
Age
5
Barcode / EAN / UPC
Country
Details

Amrut double cask. For Double Cask, Amrut selects two very different barrels that are bottled after a marriage. For the third edition, these were a bourbon barrel (# 3190, filled in May 2012) and a port pipe (# 2716, filled in March 2012). Both contain whiskey distilled from Scottish peated malt. In June 2017 it was bottled at a strength of 46% at the age of five. Only 900 bottles are available in total. Amrut was the very first Indian single malt whiskey and was introduced in Glasgow on August 24, 2004. The name comes from Sanskrit and means something like “nectar of the gods”, the company itself translates it as “elixir of life”. Amrut Distilleries Ltd. was founded in Bangalore in 1948 by JN Radhakrishna Rao Jagdale. His son Neelakanta joined the company in 1972 and decided in 1982 that Amrut should start producing a premium whiskey. Until then, only so-called Indian Made Foreign Liquor was made. Initially, the locally grown barley was distilled together with molasses and sold as Prestige Blended Malt Whiskey. From 1986 both raw materials were distilled separately, the malt whiskey was aged for a year and the blend was sold as MaQintosh Premium Whiskey. Increasingly convincing of the quality of the malt whiskey and the fact that for the Indian flavor less and less was used in the blend, Neelakanta decided in 2001 that Amrut should be sold as a single malt. After extensive market research in Scotland by his son Rakshit, the time had come in 2004. First it was Europe's turn, the rest of the world did not follow until 2009. The current distillery was built in 1987 in Kambipura. There are six stainless steel washbacks of 10,000 liters each and two copper pot stills of 5000 liters. The barley used is from Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan, except for peated malt, which is imported from Scotland. The barley is malted in Jaipur and Delhi. Fermentation takes six days and uses water from a source 25 kilometers away. The distillery has a capacity of 200,000 liters of pure alcohol per year. Due to the altitude (1000 meters above sea level) and the hot and humid climate in Bangalore, the maturation is much faster here, the whiskey is generally bottled after about four years. The angels' share is between 10 and 16% per year. Amrut whiskey is not cold filtered and not colored before bottling. The distillery is not very automated, the company has opted for ample employment and employs some 450 people. Tasting note: color: dark old gold. Nose: aromas of greasy peat smoke and wet earth are accompanied by strawberries, blueberries, vanilla, caramel, oak, freshly roasted nuts, leather, gingerbread spice and some floral notes. Taste: Notes of vanilla, peach, orange, chocolate, ginger, cardamom and cumin are beautifully supported by subtle notes of peat smoke. In the long and juicy finish it has notes of dried fruit, vanilla, coconut and ripe mango, while notes of smoke and ash are constantly present.

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