The Rise of Indian Single Malt Whisky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, we explore whisky in India. I go through the differences between India's traditional whisky and its single malt whisky, the terroir and climate, the history and some of it key single malts like Amrut, Rampur and Paul John whisky.
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For a long time only Amrut and Paul John were available here in California but now Rampur has arrived. I’ll have pick up a bottle and do my own study of Indian whisky.
I had Rampur for the first time in an Indian restaurant in Delhi, which was highly recommended by the server! It was the first time, I was introduced to Indian single malts. I was trying to find it it Washington DC or Maryland, but could not get my hands to it. Like you, I did not enjoy Paul John and Amrut fusion, I found it to be good.
One of the best whisky channels. Amazing video quality, good job.
Cheers! 🥃 Appreciate that
Indian whisky is so good. I love that Amrut Fusion. Great video, as if it really needs to be said. Phil mate, you got it all going on. Best quality whisky vids, end of! Cheers mate and have a great week.
Thanks Al. Means a lot! Love the Fusion too!
Love the breakdown analysis you did based on geography and how the notes would be affected. Having tasted all of them I can definitely vouch for this. After the Japanese Whiskey, I really want the world to take a note of India Single Malts. Thanks for spreading out the words. Kudos mate.
Thank you so much! Appreciate you watching
Pity that the Indian single malts are not even available throughout the country!! Very extensive cover on them, thanks mate✌️👍
I'm from India recently I've started following your channel and I'm so happy you make video about Indian whiskey which is very rare you find content on it
Glad to hear! Thanks so much!
Love your content dude
Maybe do a video on how to do a whisky tasting session for you friends and which all whiskies should one go for?
If I ever come to New Zealand would like to have a dram with you!
From
An Indian Whisky Lover!
That's a great idea! Thanks for watching.
Phiiiiill! We were missing you a lot!! Great video as always and not a very covered topic. Cheers!!
Thanks Daslo! Great to be able to upload again.
Love from India.
Great video, bought the Rampur Double Cask myself and I like it a lot, it has a very unique kind of sweetness
Awesome! So interesting right!
I watched the Paul John video before I saw yours. Your video is practically word for word in your description meaning you have researched the topic really well. I am a complete newbie and along with one other channel I like and respect yours. Big props
My favorite small liquor store is in a mostly-Indian-shops strip mall and it’s the first place I noticed Indian single malts. Been really interested to try them so this vid is really helpful.
Cheers Don! They are definitely becoming more common around the place
Great video Phil and come at the perfect time as looking at getting an Indian Whisky. Thought would get the Amrut Fusion however this is making me lean towards Rampur with them fruit notes. Love to see you tackling English whisky due to they are young but without the faster ageing. However not sure if they also get priced up like Japanese and Australian. Cheers.
“Amrut” in Sanskrit translates to ‘nectar’ or ‘elixir’.
Love your videos Phil
Oh great fact! I should have included that. Thanks Adish!
@@FirstPhilWhisky"elixir of immortality"
I live quite close to Rampur, and i still have to go to Delhi to get a bottle of this.
Great Video Phil!
Had to watch this just because I never knew Indian whisky was a thing…. I’m so intrigued
Love from India brother ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks bro!
Thanks, Phil. Excellent presentations and really useful information, as ever. I'm girding myself for launch into Asian whiskies.
Great job! Thank you so much, I always learn so much from you. One of the best there is. Could you do a Japanese whisky one?
Hey Phil , thank you so much for doing this man! You pretty much nailed everything in your evaluation. I just wanted to let you know about Paul John Bold. It's higher in their range than the Brilliance, and is a way better drink. If you ever see this one , please pick one up for yourself. You won't regret it, I promise :D . Am a big , big fan of your channel. Thanks a ton again for doing this.
I had heard of India as a big consumer of whiskey but not quite India as a maker of them. Very informative.
Yeah neither did I until I researched for this vid. Interesting stuff. Thanks!
Eyyyyy finally you heard my request!!!!
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Thanks for the suggestion! I enjoyed making this vid
Really happy to have found your channel! #1 whisky channel in my book. Please do a vid on Taiwanese whisky (Kavalan whisky is fantastic). Anyway, keep up the amazing work :)
Great suggestion. Would love to do a video on Taiwanese whisky. Thanks so much!! Appreciate the support.
Nice channel and instructive keep going man! How about to talk about the distilleries next time? Cheers from France!
Thanks so much! Great to have you watching.
Great video, very informative! Amrut peated whisky is one of my favourite whiskies 🥃. Now I know more about it 🙏
Very detailed. Thank you.
Thanks Lok!
What is the cast strength whisky or medium cask or reserve cask?
Hey Phil, I got a mini bottle (50ml) of John Paul Brilliance around 3 years ago and loved it. It was like drinking liquid barley sugar lollies. Bought a bottle earlier this year and was bitterly disappointed. Batch 02 - 31-Jan -19. All of your comments were spot on for that batch.
Ah that's super interesting and may explain the discrepancy between my experience and what other reviewers have been saying.
A few interesting single malt whiskies been made in Brazil, as well. Some interesting experiences with different kind of barrels. Brazil has been making whisky for decades for the international blended industry.
Ah I’ve heard bits and pieces, but not much. I need to look into it more. Sounds interesting. Thanks!
Excellent...please do try Christmas edition 2020 from Paul John 🙏 cheers
I wonder if you've tried any more Indian single malts since this video. I'm in love with the Amrut Kadhambam. It's their single malt, matured in sherry, brandy, and rum casks, then married and further matured in ex bourbon casks. It's insanely flavorful with a perfect hint of peat. 🤌 I rank it up there with my favorite scotch.
One of the reasons Indian whisky is good is because Indian LOVE whisky. From grain to malt to molasses based ones I am constantly surprised how many Indians KNOW whisky. When i say know i don't mean in terms of whisky knowledge but just know what good whisky smells and tastes like. With the largest diaspora in the WORLD, an upcoming economy India and Indians are just lapping up whisky like no other. THIS makes it nearly impossible for manufacturers to put out bad stuff and fueling 'Indian whisky industry'. Each one working hard to provide quality stuff. Amrut, Paul John etc are just too good for the money. Cheers!
I appreciate the channel, keeping it fresh.
A colleague of mine went to Bangalore on business a few years back and I asked her to get me some Amrut... but she couldn't find any for sale there! However, they are doing well with exports, so I now have two Amruts, two Paul Johns (their sherry cask finished Christmas Editions are really good) and a Rampur (although I'm using the bag to keep the sun off some Adnams Spirit of Broadside, as the Rampur also had a tube and that didn't!).
Interesting! I will need to try some of those expressions.
Amrut peated single malt is fantastic and it compares very well with lagavulin 16.
Another great video. Subbed. Thanks
Top notch information compañero, un abrazo🤘🤘🤘
He has returrrrrrrrrned!!!! :) BEAUTY
Haha cheers Keith!
You should try Amrut peated cask strength. I think it knocks the socks off of something like ardbeg Corryvreckan or Laphroaig quarter cask.
Sounds great!!
Man u r a great Teacher.
Living in Australia I know these two issues with Australian whisky 1. Expensive labour 2. They follow apple marketing trying to create an illusion of luxury in everything as they can never compete in the budget lane
Ah makes sense! Thanks for the input!
Great video man. When you talking kiwi drams?
Soon hopefully!
Aussie whisky may be so expensive because of our very high alcohol excise tax. I presume that would still apply to exports.
I'm a fan of Amrut fusion. Found this a little while back in a whisky loot subscription
Yeah, I like the fusion too. That makes sense about the high tax. Thanks for watching Chris
@@FirstPhilWhisky Australian excise is high but doesn’t apply to exports. I think it’s such a recent thing and the barrier to entry is high with home distillation being illegal, and just tough to get distilleries approved in rural areas, so many distilleries go for industrial areas with high rent. This makes scaling up expensive.
I am having a drink of Amrut single malt right now and enjoy it at least somewhat. I can detect some malted barley flavor there, but a bit of a problem it has is that there is also a very slight bourbony note in there as well, which to me is a turn off. Eventhough that bourbony flavor is coming through, I am willing to try more expressions from Amrut, because of the malted barley flavor that I can taste. That is more than I can say for alot of other malted barley whiskies......need I sneak in the words the "modern Scotches" I've had quite recently.
Fascinating. Must try one.
Great video, love your work fella. We need be careful when saying something is 'like' or 'equivalent to' re:aging and end product. The bourbon industry always seems to reference that their products 'as good as' if it's been aged for longer in Scotland. The complexity/depth of character/roundness is (in my opinion) near impossible to compare. It might be better that the industry agrees that there's an optimum age:climate ratio...hotter climates just can't age for as long as lesser so climates.
It's not dry in Bangalore, it's pretty humid actually
no rubber in my Brilliance😂 just an intense fuity dram! one of my fav's
I'm from India and the first time I ever saw Rampur at a store was only 3 weeks back. I saw an Indian reviewer mention a few months back that it had not been made available in the domestic market here. The manufacturers might've been apprehensive given that it'll be perceived as being pretty pricy, esp. for an Indian whiskey. I have a question just in case you read this - the guys over at Whiskey Tribe dunked on Rampur for smelling like pot-pourri in a furniture store 😂 thoughts?
Hmm what video did they dunk on it? I really like it. Crazy it's not available in the domestic market. I didn't get that note - but it may be a different expression. Thanks for watching!
@Phil Great Video! You should try the MaQintosh Blue Reserve by Amrut distilleries, it an amazing blended whisky.
Interesting! Will have to look out for it
very informative
Glad it was helpful!
It's weird because a place in India has the highest annual rainfall in the world, significantly cold climate and green rolling hills and large lakes (Meghalaya - the Scots called it the Scotland of the East). It's literally Scotland 2.0. I feel like that's probably the best place in India for traditional whiskey production.
Largest consumer! All 3 versions of Rampur as well as 4 versions of Indri Trini are freely available. Some states limit the ABV to 43%, which is a shame.
Great video. Hope to see some more maybe from Japanese whiskey, Australian whiskey, Thai whiskey????
That's the plan! When I get time haha. But great suggestions
How I wish I could send some Epitome Reserve, Indri, Kamet or GianChand to you Phil. Indian single malt industry has grown and how. ☺
You'd have loved them, mostly double matured in bourbon and sherry casks.
Kamet
Indri
These two should ne your next two indian single malts to try. I am sure you will like them.
Paul John - i agree. Its not something that is popular in india either.
nice video, now we are sure abt amrut fusion, but down south of India Rampur is not seen in stores, Kamet is a new one ,not seen in south
Yup it's not available in Hyderabad unfortunately
You should also try indri trini single maly
Hey man, have you tried Indri yet?
Paul John Oloroso is to me one of the greatest whisky
so being known as the whisky guy i have tried all and paul john whisky i have to tell you is better after a time left in the open bottle. kampur is possibly the best from india and is almost as good as some Spey sides
You should try the new one in market which is giving competation to the above three. Name is Indri
Try the Indri single malt whisky bro
I wish someone captures the flavour and the scent of the first drops of rain on the sand in a single malt.
Try Isla whiskies, especially Port Charlotte 10. It'll taste like rain soaked sand and seaspray, very earthy and smoky!
Just stumbled across your vids, awesome man. A couple of responses to this vid. Aussie whiskies, well at least here in Tasmania are expensive primarily due to excise (tax). +/-$80 per litre of 63% alcohol...which means to compete with single malt distilleries globally is difficult. My other comment surrounds the whisky that you presented called Rampur, I find that the packaging that surrounds whisky bottles is exorbitant and contributes to pollution without gain. Obviously it is nice for the human psyche to buy something in a nice bag however I hope that soon, distilleries realise that they can educate the consumer not to read a book by its cover and more by the contents. Great video!!
Great point Ben. Yeah when you think about it, they don't really need the tins either.
Thanks for this video !
Thanks for watching!
good video
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Try amurt whisky
Please do a review on South African Whisky.
Hope so!
Try old monk rum
I was hoping you had tons of videos :(. Hurry up and record stuff!
Indian single malt is prominent across world, thanks to amrut & paul john
It's so exciting.
Australian whiskeys are priced high because of distiller's tax that came about because of the temperance movement as well as being tax by APV
Ah I see. Explains why it's more than our local NZ whiskies. Thanks!
Where have been? About bloody time😉😂
Ha glad I was missed Neil. I had a massive project at work and also renovated the house so had no set. Hopefully I'm all set up now though to pump some more videos out.
I’m glad that you’ve been using your time productively. I have a few house projects going on, myself, mainly the garden.
The Amrut has been calling to me for a while and the Rampur sounds great. I’ve just ordered a selection of Douglas Laing blends, but I think that India may be my next stop👍
I do find the faster matured whiskies taste heaps better the first half of the bottle
Who’s the bum that gave a thumbs down? What are you expecting ?
I’m getting schooled in Whisky .....
Aussie whisky can either be great or mediocre and expensive for the sake of being expensive.
from,
An Aussie whisky drinker.
I’ve had a similar experience. Yeah I’ve had some really good Aussie whisky. But some is just way too expensive for what I’m tasting
@@FirstPhilWhisky you can easily pay less, and just get great Scotch
The main difference is that instead of oak casks they mature their whisky in armpits, hence the funky notes.
I have a bottle of Kemit
Seriously do you purposely avoid Irish whiskey?
I just need a bigger budget to buy some. Hopefully a Irish whisky video on the way though!
I thought alcohol was illegal in India?
Its not mate. We drink helluva rum and whiskey.
In some states it is.
But not across the country.
Why would alcohol be illegal in India? India is the world's biggest whiskey drinkers, india is a Hindu country..... mainly muslim countries have banned alcohol
@@peekingowl4074 When I went to India I couldn't buy any alcohol the only thing I can find was non alcoholic beer which tasted terrible.
@@snOOziie which state you travelled to ?Gujrat?... because gujrat is the only dry state ....... In other states you can easily get whatever you want in a offshop. I am from India ..and i started drinking when I was 15.... though legal age to drink beer is 18... Other drinks at 22.
Bangalore, probably has one of the best weather in world to live in, 15 to 33*C, Coastal regions of India are highly humid, but fairly warm. Geographically wise, India has all the climates, highest altitudes to zero elevation. It's like Europe to Mediterranean.