Amrut Fusion

According to our friends at Amrut:

The nose on this whisky is heavy, thickly oaked and complex. Some curious barley-sugar notes here shrouded in soft smoke. Big, but seductively gentle, too.

On the palate the delivery, though controlled at first, is massive! Then confusion as that smoke on the nose turns into warming, full blown peat, but it far from gets its own way as a vague sherry trifle note (curious, seeing as how there are no sherry butts involved) hammers home that barley - fruitiness to make for a bit of a free-for-all. The flavours develop into a really intense chocolate fudge middle which absolutely resonates through the palate.

The finish is a slight struggle as the mouthfeel gets a bit puffy with the dry peat and oak, but there is enough molassed sweetness to see the malt through to a satisfying end. Above all the spices, rather than lying down and accepting their fate, rise up and usher this extraordinary whisky to its exit.