Tasting notes

nose

Dry peat smoke with an old-leather note, a little bacon and a squeeze of citrus

palate

Molasses sweetness first, then peat that builds and turns the palate drier and spicier, with toffee, malted grain and orchard fruit underneath

finish

Medium length; smoke wrapped in butterscotch and vanilla, fading to black tea

Mash bill

100% peated malted barley, imported from Scotland. Amrut's unpeated flagship uses Indian six-row barley, but its peated range is made only from Scottish malt, peated to about 24 parts per million. Amrut's Fusion uses this same peated Scottish malt for a quarter of its recipe; here it is the whole recipe.

Awards

• Silver — IWSC 2016
• Gold — Spirits Selection 2016

Why it's craft

Amrut imports its peated malt from Scotland but makes and ages the whisky in southern India, so the smoke of Scottish barley meets maturation in tropical heat. This fully peated bottling sits in the core range beside the unpeated flagship and Fusion, which uses a quarter peated malt. Amrut was founded in Bengaluru in 1948 and is still owned and run by the Jagdale family.