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and was surprised to land at The Bière Club. A modern brew pub frequented by IT specialists and techies. It’s not exactly the “local” atmosphere I had anticipated, but India is not always what the clichés tell us. Along with tradition, India is also a modern country and its whisky, as Amrut, and now Paul John, Indri, Rampur and others tell us, is every bit as enjoyable as the best Scotch, bourbon and yes, even Canadian whiskies. Amrut may bring the whisky explorer to Bengaluru, but your visit is only complete once you’ve spent a day in Lalbagh, the oldest botanical garden in the world. Created in 1760, the garden covers 240 verdant acres of meticulously kept tropical gardens and peaceful nooks often frequented by timid young lovers. Climbing gentle steps, hand carved into a 300-million-year-old, 20-acre granite boulder, provides panoramic views of Bengaluru, India’s wealthiest and cleanest city, below.
Fashion Meets Passion
Mark Twain once described India as
“the one land that all men desire to
see and having seen but once, by
even a glimpse, would not give that
glimpse for all the shows of all the
rest of the globe combined.”
It’s a pretty special place, for sure, and with at least half a dozen distilleries there now making single malt, it is, or should be, on every whisky explorer’s and every armchair whisky explorer’s horizon. And when you visit, if you find a note of Parijat in one of its whiskies, please do let me know.
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the whisky explorer magazine
SUMMER 2024
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