Founded in Bangalore in 1948, just a few months after India's declaration of independence, Amrut became in 2004 the first distillery in history to produce a 100% Indian single malt. Claiming its origins loud and clear, it uses barley that grows at the foot of the Himalayas, in the Punjab and Rajasthan regions, but also, for some of its expressions, a peaty malt from Scotland. Amrut whiskies are then aged in cellars more than 1,000 metres above sea level. This altitude and the tropical climate favour exchanges between the wood and the distillate, acting as a real ageing accelerator.