NOSE: Instead of the usual biscuit aroma, we now get moist cake. And my word: is it fruity and spicy!! Love the freshly waxed oak floor, too. Brain-explodingly complex and multi-layered with one of the most intriguing sherry-style-bourbon-style marriages on the market.
PALATE: Cracking delivery and entirely unique in form. The structure is decidedly oak-based, but acts as no more than a skeleton from which the juicy sultana and spices drape. Salivating, too, as the barley kicks in powerfully. But the liquorice-orangey-honeycomb bourbon theme quietly shapes the flavour profile; the spices pulse and glow.
FINISH: Quite a chunk of natural caramel quietens the more exuberant characteristics; long and elegant.
Amrut Distillery is family owned and operated, located in Banglore, India, where it has operated since 1948.Amrut buys bourbon barrels from Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace and Jack Daniels.