Amrut Fusion
Regression to The Mean
0 689
Review by @Victor
- Nose21
- Taste22
- Finish24
- Balance22
- Overall89
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The reviewed sample is from a 50 ml mini bottle, given to me by @Nock. This is at least the fourth bottle of Amrut Fusion from which I have tasted, beginning in 2011, but it is the first review of Amrut Fusion which I have written
Nose: strong intensity malt and wine flavours. The malt is deep and shows both medium and low-pitched cereal flavours and a little grassiness. The wine flavours combine nicely with the malt. You notice sweet first, but get a good dry balance as well
Taste: the translation to the mouth is quite good, and with a real vibrancy. This is a very malty whisky, with some very lively wine flavours
Finish: rather long finish...and the wine flavours evolve very nicely and with a great deal of complexity. This is an elegant finish, which is not a comment I make about many whiskies
Balance: there is a good balance throughout the time-sequential tasting experience
Previous bottles of Fusion I've tasted rated from me: 1) 72 (@dbk's 2011 bad batch bottle), 2) 95 (an otherworldly peak experience of evolving flavours), and 3) 85 (much better than the first experience, but not in the league of the second experience)
Casting @dbk's bottle aside as an outlier, this little mini represents to me as very-close-to-the-mean of my other experiences of Amrut Fusion
If I were to buy a standard bottle of Amrut Fusion now, I would guess that it would taste very much like this little mini does. Amrut Fusion is a nice whisky, but I prefer all of the various Cask Strength expressions which Amrut makes to this 50% ABV expression. Thanks again, @Nock!
Strength: good strong flavours throughout. Score: 23/25 points
Quality: all of the flavours are very good in quality. Score: 22/25 points
Variety: the subtly evolving wine flavours are a work of high art and great beauty. Score: 23/25 points
Harmony: there is a good cooperation and balance of the various malt and wine flavours. Score: 22/25 points
Total non-sequential score: 90/100 points
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Amrut Fusion was my first introduction to this distillery. The only time I have tried something with a lower ABV was at the SOT tasting in Toronto last year. Nothing by them has failed to impress me.
I have a couple of Fusion minis unless I gave one away. You can get them sometimes in Calgary. Do you know what batch yours was? If they are the same batch I might open one to compare impressions, especially as I strive to discover which of the flavours I'm tasting is the one that is "malty".