Amrut “Nectar of Life”
Amrut Intermediate Sherry Matured Single Malt 57.1%Batch No.7 Bottled June 2012 (New make into Virgin/Ex-Bourbon casks, then transferred into ex-Oloroso sherry butts for a further year before a finishing off in ex-Bourbon casks)
Cranberry and mulberry syrup ladled over raspberry and caramel vanilla ice cream. Rich, robust and red berried with barrel loads of sweet Bourbon spiced fruit cake, coated in vanilla icing. A more exquisite nose you will be hard pressed to find.
On the palate, this redolent sweetly berried stew coats the tongue, then mid palate releases a hot, sweet spicy chilli, leaving a gorgeously lingering Oloroso oaky glow. 95. Along with Fusion(see https://wildaboutwhisky.blogspot.com/2011/03/hindu-trinity-known-as-amrut.html), Amrut have set the bar somewhere in the Himalayas…….
Wow to say that you did not dislike this whisky would be an understatement,wouldn't it? Frustrating as I'd love to taste it but I don't have it in my samples. I remember Fusion which I liked a lot.
Well your description tickled my pairing obsession…
Two options :
– a slow roasted pork belly served with prunes soaked in cranberry juice and cooked in the oven with the pork. I would serve it with a medium spicy plum chutney (cardamom,chili,tamarin)
– a dark chocolate cake with a blackcurrant cake and just a drizzle of black pepper vanilla custard (all homemade of course).
What do you think, Mr Whisky Whisky ?
Martine
Mmmmm…sounds salivatingly delicious…I'll have to post a sample to you asap???:-)