Now people are more interested in finding out different kinds of flavours. The best bars in the country are experimenting on this, they are favouring blended malt whisky over the in-vogue single malt ones, Marshall says that the blended ones take the best of the single malt to improve their taste.
When you get many of them, then why get satisfied with single? Blended ones take the best of the single malt and sell it after making it better, the connoisseur opines. Blended whisky is made from a blend of multiple malts and grains, but single malts are singularly produced from one distillery.
It takes immense skill to blend whisky as the aim is to have the same final flavour, he says while rejecting the perception of whisky as stuffy and an old man's drink."Whisky is all about enjoying yourself and enjoying life. It is a perfect social lubricant as it encourages you to talk while drinking, he said.
Whisky, often viewed as a serious drink for older men due to the subtlety and depth associated with it, forms the bulk of the Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) market in the country.Nevertheless vodka is quickly becoming the tipple of choice in pubs and lounges as the Gen-X sees the alcoholic beverage as trendy and fashionable.