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Paul John Christmas Edition: every release from 2018 to 2025
The Paul John Christmas Edition is the most anticipated annual release in Indian whisky, and this is the complete lineup, every edition from the first in 2018 to the 2025 release. Each year, master blender Michael D’Souza changes the whisky components and the casks, so no two editions are alike, which is exactly what makes…
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Rampur Jugalbandi series: all eight casks, tasted and ranked
The Rampur Jugalbandi series is the most ambitious cask experiment in Indian whisky, and having tasted all eight editions, we can say it lives up to the idea. Each release pairs Rampur’s bourbon-matured single malt with one distinctive second cask, from Moscatel and Calvados to Mizunara oak and PX sherry, bottled at cask strength. The…
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Indian single malt whisky: the complete guide to India’s best distilleries
Indian single malt whisky is malt whisky distilled in India from 100% malted barley in copper pot stills, then matured in a tropical climate that ages spirit three to four times faster than Scotland. The result is a bold, fruit-forward style that has started winning the world’s biggest blind-judged competitions. Five distilleries lead the category:…
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Amrut whisky: the Bangalore distillery that proved India could make world-class single malt
Amrut whisky is the distillery that started it all. Based in Bangalore and family-owned since 1948, Amrut released the first Indian single malt onto the global market in 2004, and within six years its Fusion expression was ranked among the three finest whiskies in the world by Jim Murray. The house style is bold, full-bodied…
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Paul John whisky: how a Goa distillery became one of India’s biggest single malts
Paul John whisky is an Indian single malt made by John Distilleries in Goa, founded by Paul P. John and first released internationally in 2012. Goa’s tropical humidity gives the whisky a rich, fruit-forward style built on Indian six-row barley and ex-bourbon casks. The distillery is now 60% owned by American giant Sazerac, and its…
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Rampur whisky: India’s oldest distillery is also its most experimental
Rampur whisky is an Indian single malt made by Radico Khaitan at a distillery in Uttar Pradesh that dates to 1943, making it India’s oldest. Sitting in the foothills of the Himalayas, where summers and winters pull in opposite directions, it produces a fruit-forward style and has become the most cask-experimental of India’s major distilleries.…
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Indri whisky: how a Haryana distillery became India’s number one single malt
Indri whisky is an Indian single malt from Piccadily Distilleries, made in the village of Indri in Haryana, near the foothills of the Himalayas. Launched in 2022, it has risen fast to become the number one malt whisky in India by volume, helped by a master blender, Surrinder Kumar, who built Amrut’s single malt programme…
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Godawan whisky: Diageo’s desert single malt and its botanical cask secret
Godawan whisky is an artisanal Indian single malt made by Diageo India in Alwar, Rajasthan, launched in 2022. It is the most distinctive of India’s major single malts, finished in casks treated with two Indian botanicals, Rasna and Jatamansi, a process no other distillery in the world uses. Named after the critically endangered Great Indian…
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The best Indian single malts of 2026, tried and ranked
The best Indian single malts of 2026 span everything from rare single casks to everyday bottles, and we have tasted across all five major distilleries to rank them. Some of our favourites are limited releases poured at Whisky Live Paris and The Whisky Show in London, the kind of bottle most people will never see.…
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The Indian single malt rules: what the IMWA defines
The Indian single malt rules were written down for the first time in 2025. For most of the category’s history, the phrase had no legal meaning, which let almost anyone use it. That changed when the Indian Malt Whisky Association set formal standards. To qualify as an Indian single malt, a whisky must be made…
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