Tasting Notes

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Amrut Single Cask #4668

Country: India

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Type: Single Malt

Bottler: Distiller

ABV: 56.5%

Score: 93 Points

Amrut Single Cask #4668. Photo ©2018, Mark Gillespie/CaskStrength Media.This is the first Amrut single cask bottled exclusively for the U.S. market, and is even more unusual because it’s a peated single malt matured in a Port wine pipe. The cask was filled in May of 2013 and bottled in October of 2017, but tastes like a far older whisky.

The nose has notes of campfire smoke, plums, berry cobbler, and molasses. The taste is intense and mouth-coating with a subtle smokiness balanced by clove, chili powder, molasses, berry cobbler, and plums. The finish is long, but subtle and mouthwatering with a kiss of smoke, molasses, and gentle spices. Excellent! (March, 2018)