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Amrut

Amrut
Nilgiris Cask-Aged Indian Dry Gin

Category: Barrel Aged Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: India
Alcohol: 42.8%
95 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$53

Amrut
Nilgiris Cask-Aged Indian Dry Gin

Category: Barrel Aged Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: India
Alcohol: 42.8%
Brilliant straw yellow color. Aromas and flavors of vanilla and ginger with honey, lemon pepper and pipe tobacco, butterscotch, and candied orange with a velvety, crisp, dry light-to-medium body and a warming, amusing, medium-length finish with notes of butterscotch and sea salted caramel, honey and clove, black pepper and watered down english breakfast tea, and sesame candies. This is a Gin for Scotch drinkers; the juniper and botanicals are there but the barrel influence and honeyed notes are deliciously prominent.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Crisp & Lively
Aroma Aroma: vanilla and ginger with honey, lemon pepper and pipe tobacco, butterscotch, and candied orange
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of butterscotch and sea salted caramel, honey and clove, black pepper and watered down english breakfast tea, and sesame candies
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, neat and on the rocks
Cocktail Cocktails: Gin Martini, Gimlet, French 75
Bottom Line Bottom Line: This is a Gin for Scotch drinkers; the juniper and botanicals are there but the barrel influence and honeyed notes are deliciously prominent.

The Producer

Amrut Distilleries Ltd.

The Producer
The Grainger Suite, Dobson House
Newcastle-upon-tyne, NE3 3PF
United Kingdom
44 -191 233 6316

Barrel Aged Gin

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Serve in a Shot Glass
Barrel-aged gin has become a trendy spirit produced by numerous artisan distillers in America. Actually they are bringing this tradition back as barrel-aged gin has been made on the Spanish island of Menorca for more than two hundred years, with white oak barrels being the preferred vessel.

The current barrel-aged gins made in America have a brown color, derived from the bourbon barrels in which it is matured. This technique gives these gins aromas of vanilla and caramel.

These gins are served either over ice or serve as the base of cocktails such as an Old Fashioned or Manhattan.