By Debbie Shocair Rating: A- After my first surprising and very pleasant foray into Amrut’s expressions, I was looking forward to something special in the Amrut Fusion Single Malt. Certainly I am aware of all the wonderful things said about it elsewhere, but much like movie reviews, I only take such comments as whispers. I prefer to find out for ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: A- I have to admit that, after all the research I had done about Indian “whisky,” I wasn’t expecting much from Amrut. I knew Amrut was a single malt brand, but most Indian whisky is a blend a lot of a liquor very similar to rum. But I delved a little deeper into Amrut (conversing with ...

The Next Big Market For Whiskey Is India, Not China By Richard Thomas As China’s economy took off during the 1990s, the meme of China as “the next big thing” gathered a momentum that, if anything, outpaced the country’s stratospheric growth. The idea that China was the place to do business, whatever the business actually was, penetrated literally everything. Nevermind ...

By Richard Thomas India was already in trouble with the Scotch Whisky Association for exporting Indian not-really-whisky products to Europe, but now it seems you can’t even trust the labeling of scotch whisky in India itself. According to the Times of India, a group of criminals had allegedly been refilling old foreign liquor bottles with locally made alcohol and selling ...

By Richard Thomas India’s Allied Blenders and Distillers (ADB) is set to compete with brands like Blenders Pride and Signature for the premium end of India’s domestic whisky market. ADB is the maker of Officer’s Choice, which at 23.8 million cases sold in 2013 makes it the world’s largest, topping Johnnie Walker by a factor of three. Although many Indian ...