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India’s love of homegrown single malts shakes up Pernod, Diageo
Indian single malt Indri was recently named the world’s best whisky at the Whiskies of the World Awards.Reuters - 17 Dec 2023, 12:34pm
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A worker inspects a whisky bottle prior to packaging at Piccadily Distilleries, in Indri, India. (Reuters pic)
INDRI: Oak casks, once used to store bourbon and wine, are stacking up in a distillery near New Delhi, filled with ageing whisky as workers churn out almost 10,000 bottles a day of Indian single malt Indri, recently named the world’s best whisky.
Sugarcane and mustard fields, not peat bogs, ring the distillery, where the two-year-old Indian brand’s owner Piccadily is ramping up production and building a three-hole golf course to lure connoisseurs and tipplers in the whisky-loving nation.