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Vanilla, almond and cane syrup seem to linger with just a touch of oak spice providing a little heat.

The exit is smooth and unassuming just as the entry was. To that end I mixed a nice highball recipe using juice and soda and found the experience very enjoyable. I can sip quite easily, although I admit the whisky seems to be more suited to mixing. The overall effect is pleasant and very approachable. I suspect the local grain or terrain imparts some unique flavours into the spirit.) The Solan Number One’s flavour is rounded out with little dabs of vanilla, some obvious almond, and hints of tobacco. (I have only sampled a few Indian whiskies, but I remember this same sort of exotic taste is apparent in the Amrut brand which is also produced in India. There are also some unusual flavours that remind me of licorice, orange peel, lilacs, and oriental spices. The whisky enters the mouth with flavours of butterscotch, oak spice, and a touch of sea brine. I find the aroma appealing, although I would not describe the air above the glass as complex and engaging.

I let the glass sit to see how the nose developed, and I was rewarded with a few new notes of orange peel, heather and tobacco. The initial nose is honeyed with a mixture of sweet malt and butterscotch, some clean oak spices and hints (but only hints) of a rum-like cane syrup. When my glass is tilted and twirled, a light sheen forms on the inside which gives up slow-moving droopy legs of medium thickness. When I pour the whisky into my glass it displays as a rich golden honey coloured whisky with a strong visual appeal. (FYI: Much of the whisky produced in India is grain spirit blended with cane spirit, a practice which is also legal in the United States, but not in Canada or Scotland.) In the Glass 8.5/10 Don’t get me wrong, I harbour no preconceived notions regarding quality, I just would like to know more completely, how the spirit is made. I also would have preferred to see an age statement upon the label, and a more definitive statement on the back label with respect to how this whisky is produced.īased upon how I read the label, the Solan Number One may not be a 100 % malt whisky, and in fact I cannot even ascertain whether it is a 100 % grain whisky. It would be nice if the importer of the spirit could convince the parent company that such diffusers are not necessary for the portion of the spirit bottled for Canada. The topper is plastic and provides a good seal, but the spout has one of those annoying diffusers which are used by manufacturers in certain areas of the world to prevent the bottle from being refilled with an inferior liquid in a nefarious business establishment. The presentation included a beige coloured cardboard box which helps to protect the bottle from the deleterious effects of light. My sample bottle of Solan Number One Malt Whisky arrived in the tall slender bottle you see to the left. 1 is bottled at 42.8 per cent alcohol by volume.) In the Bottle 4/5 and asked if I could provide a review here on my website. I was recently sent a sample bottle by the local Alberta distributor, Madira Spirits Inc. Solan Number One is blended with mature Malt Spirits produced using traditional Scottish methods of malting, kneading, and distillation on vintage copper pot stills and aged in oak casks. (The town of Kasauli in located in the Solan District, Himachal Pradesh, India.) The distillery was founded in the late 1820s by Edward Dyer who apparently chose this location because the climate in this area of India was quite similar to his native Scotland, (and because the British troops in the nearby Punjab had a taste for Scottish style whisky). Solan Number 1 Malt Whisky is produced by Mohan Meakin Limited at the Kasauli Distillery which is found in the Himalayan Highlands at an elevation of over 6,000 feet.

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Review: Solan Number One Full Bodied Malt Whisky 84/100Ī review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf) in