Amrut was founded in Bangalore in 1948 by Shri J.N. Radhakrishna under the name Amrut Laboratories. The distillery initially produced “Indian-made liquor”, foreign spirits such as rum, brandy and, from the 1980s, whisky, all produced in India. The current distillery was built in 1987 and its first single malt launched in Glasgow in 2004 after several years of experimentation.

Still somewhat niche in France, Indian whisky is well worth discovering. Amrut is the subcontinent’’s most famous distillery, located in Bangalore in the south of the country. The barley used for this bottling was grown primarily on the fertile lands at the foot of the Himalayas.
The distillery’’s whisky is matured in casks previously used for bourbon and reveals a profile similar to that of Scotland’’s Speysides, with rich and generous aromas dominated by fruity notes (citrus fruit zest) and sweet cocoa, all pepped up by beautiful spicy nuances.