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Brandy is the best-selling spirit category in South India. Most is molasses-based with added grape spirit and flavouring.
With water or soda; often taken warm with hot water in winter.
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India's hot climate makes whisky mature much faster than in Scotland, so young Indian malts taste rich and rounded. Indian single malts now win international awards.
Most whisky sold in India is distilled from molasses and blended with a little malt whisky. In Europe it would legally be called a spirit drink rather than whisky.
India is one of the world's largest rum markets. Indian dark rums are sweet, vanilla-led and often aged several years; rum with hot water is a classic hill-station winter drink.
A fast-growing category, many made in Goa, using botanicals like Darjeeling tea, Goan cashew, tulsi, kokum and mango.
Goa's heritage spirit with a GI tag. Cashew feni is distilled from the fermented juice of the cashew apple and has a strong, fruity, funky aroma. Urrak is its lighter first distillate.
A traditional Adivasi spirit distilled from the sweet flowers of the mahua tree, with deep cultural roots in central India. Now also made legally as a heritage spirit.
Grape brandy from the Cognac region, double distilled in copper pot stills and aged in French oak. Grades: VS (2+ years), VSOP (4+), XO (10+).
France's older brandy, usually distilled once in a column still, giving a more rustic, full-flavoured spirit than Cognac.
Apple brandy from Normandy, distilled from cider and aged in oak.
Unaged grape brandy. Peru and Chile both claim it; Peruvian pisco is distilled once to proof with no water added.
A spirit distilled from what is left after pressing grapes for wine. Clear and fiery when young; smoother when aged.
The fruit brandy of the Balkans, often homemade. Šljivovica (plum rakia) is the best known.