Amrut Bourbon Single Cask: 8.73 \u00b1 0.32 on 12 reviews ($$$$) Arran Malt Port Cask Finish: 8.58 \u00b1 0.40 on 11 reviews ($$$) As you can see, Portonova is one of the more popular Amrut whiskies – and one that out-scores the other port-finished malts in my database. A very impressive start.<\/p>\n My sample came from Redditor Devoz. It is bottled at a very high 62.1% ABV, cask-strength. Let’s see what I find in the glass:<\/p>\n Nose<\/strong>: Very fruity, with grape, raisins and berries. Dark chocolate. Pancake syrup. Toasted coconut. Dry malt. Definite nose-hair burn from the high ABV. Water dulls the nose, best to smell this one neat (carefully).<\/p>\n Palate<\/strong>: Intense flavour rush. Same dark chocolate and dark fruits from the nose, with new flavours like red currants, papaya, kiwi. Very luscious mouthfeel, like a melted Mackintosh toffee bar. Spicy kick, mainly allspice and cinnamon. Alcohol burn from the high ABV.\u00a0 Unless you want to take ridiculous small sips, water is a definite must here. A tiny bit of water seems to bring up the spicy notes the most, without affecting the other flavours. Further dilution kills the mouthfeel though, and quickly starts to sap the flavours, so go sparingly here. Finish<\/strong>: Long finish, with creamy toffee throughout. Slow fade-out of the fruity notes, leaving just a touch of bitter coffee at the very end. Too much water oddly enhances the bitterness of the finish, so I again suggest you go easy on the H2O.<\/p>\n Not exactly your every day dram, given its incredibly rich flavour profile and mouthfeel.\u00a0 It is also a lot spicier than most port-finished whiskies I’ve tried (e.g., the Kavalan Concertmaster<\/a> is a tame affair, in comparison). And with its high ABV, this one demands a little water – but I find getting the dilution just right is pretty finicky.\u00a0 Definitely a whisky for slow contemplation, and very careful dilution.<\/p>\n Among the highest reviews I’ve seen for this whisky come from the guys on Reddit (check out their Community Review<\/a>). My Annoying Opinions<\/a> and Serge of Whisky Fun<\/a> are also really big fans. Nathan the ScotchNoob<\/a> is moderately positive. The guys at Quebec Whisky<\/a> are mixed on this one though, with high, moderate and low scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amrut is the biggest name in Indian whiskies. And like Japan and Taiwan before it, they are now garnering all sorts of awards and enthusiast interest. For this review, I am looking at their cask-strength, port-finished single malt – Portonova. I’m long been a fan of port-finished whiskies. I find it adds a distinctive grape-like fruitiness to most whiskies, that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,55,18,52],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskies","tag-amrut","tag-cask-strength","tag-nas","tag-port"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAmrut Fusion: 8.90 \u00b1 0.24 on 23 reviews ($$$$)
\nAmrut Intermediate Sherry: 8.90 \u00b1 0.42 on 15 reviews ($$$$)
\nAmrut Kadhambam: 8.97 \u00b1 0.24 on 11 reviews ($$$$)
\nAmrut Naarangi: 8.63 \u00b1 0.39 on 7 reviews ($$$$$)
\nAmrut Peated Single Malt Cask Strength: 9.13 \u00b1 0.21 on 9 reviews ($$$$)
\nAmrut Portonova: 8.97 \u00b1 0.30 on 16 reviews ($$$$)<\/strong>
\nAmrut Portpipe Peated Single Cask: 8.82 \u00b1 0.35 on 9 reviews ($$$$)
\nAmrut PX Sherry Single Cask: 8.79 \u00b1 0.47 on 8 reviews ($$$$)
\nAmrut Spectrum: 9.15 \u00b1 0.22 on 8 reviews ($$$$$)<\/p>\n
\nBalvenie 21yo Port Wood: 8.74 \u00b1 0.40 on 13 reviews ($$$$$)
\nBenRiach 15yo Tawny Port Finish: 8.50 \u00b1 0.21 on 11 reviews ($$$$)
\nBenRiach 17yo Solstice Peated Port: 8.92 \u00b1 0.28 on 11 reviews ($$$$)
\nKavalan Concertmaster Port Cask: 8.27 \u00b1 0.55 on 18 reviews ($$$$)
\nLaphroaig Cairdeas 2013 Port Wood: 8.82 \u00b1 0.46 on 12 reviews ($$$$)
\nLongrow Red 11yo Port Cask: 8.70 \u00b1 0.37 on 12 reviews ($$$$)
\nPenderyn Portwood: 8.59 \u00b1 0.41 on 5 reviews ($$$)
\nTalisker Port Ruighe: 8.49 \u00b1 0.41 on 15 reviews ($$$$)
\nTomatin 14yo Portwood: 8.56 \u00b1 0.37 on 7 reviews ($$$$)
\nTyrconnell 10yo Port Cask Finish: 8.55 \u00b1 0.38 on 10 reviews ($$$$)<\/p>\n![\"Amrut.Portonova\"](\"http:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Amrut.Portonova.jpg\")
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