Amrut, Single Malt Indian Whisky, 2019 SO060926 Chidaine Today Alfonso and Paulo Sousa

Today Alfonso and Paulo Sousa run the property

led by Jean‑François Malsert

The 2012 was made under the old shared label in the family's classic

or even foie gras

Amrut, Single Malt Indian Whisky, 2019 SO060926 Chidaine Today Alfonso and Paulo SousaAmrut proved that single malt didn't have to come from Scotland. It's distilled in Bangalore from Indian six row barley grown in the foothills of the Himalayas, then matured in a tropical climate that does in a few years what a Scottish warehouse takes a decade to do. The angel's share runs somewhere around 11 to 12 percent a year, against roughly 2 percent in Scotland, which means fast, intense extraction from the cask and a whisky that punches well