INDIAN WHISKEY AND

JAPANESE WHISKEY

MADE BY – GROUP 2
SEMESTER - III
 WHAT IS WHISKEY ?
 WHISKY OR WHISKEY IS A TYPE
OF DISTILLED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE
MADE FROM FERMENTED GRAIN MASH.
VARIOUS GRAINS (WHICH MAY
BE MALTED) ARE USED FOR DIFFERENT
VARIETIES, INCLUDING BARLEY, CORN
(MAIZE), RYE, AND WHEAT. WHISKY IS
TYPICALLY AGED IN WOODEN CASKS,
GENERALLY MADE OF CHARRED WHITE
OAK.
INDIAN  MOST DISTILLED

SPIRITS THAT ARE LABELLED

WHISKEY AS "WHISKY" IN INDIA ARE A
FORM OF INDIAN-MADE
FOREIGN LIQUOR,
COMMONLY BLENDS BASED
ON NEUTRAL SPIRITS THAT
ARE DISTILLED FROM
FERMENTED MOLASSES WITH
ONLY A SMALL PORTION
CONSISTING OF
TRADITIONAL MALT WHISKY,
USUALLY ABOUT 10 TO 12
PERCENT. OUTSIDE INDIA,
SUCH A DRINK WOULD MORE
LIKELY BE LABELLED A RUM.
 VERY LITTLE INDIAN 'WHISKY'
QUALIFIES AS WHISKY IN THE EU OWING
TO THE USE OF MOLASSES OR NEUTRAL
ALCOHOL, LIMITED MATURATION (IF
ANY) AND THE USE OF FLAVOURINGS.
SUCH SPIRITS ARE, OF COURSE,
CONSIDERABLY CHEAPER TO PRODUCE
THAN GENUINE WHISKY." NINETY
PERCENT OF THE WHISKY CONSUMED IN
INDIA IS MOLASSES-BASED, ALTHOUGH
WHISKY WHOLLY DISTILLED
FROM MALT AND OTHER GRAINS, IS
ALSO MANUFACTURED AND SOLD.
 ORIGINS
 THE DRINKING OF SCOTCH WHISKY WAS
INTRODUCED TO INDIA IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY, DURING THE BRITISH RAJ. IN THE LATE
1820S, EDWARD DYER MOVED FROM ENGLAND TO
SET UP THE FIRST BREWERY IN INDIA AT KASAULI.
THE BREWERY WAS SOON SHIFTED TO
NEARBY SOLA (CLOSE TO THE BRITISH SUMMER
CAPITAL SHIMLA), AS THERE WAS AN ABUNDANT
SUPPLY OF FRESH SPRINGWATER THERE.
THE KASAULI BREWERY SITE WAS CONVERTED TO
A DISTILLERY BECOMING INDIA'S FIRST
DISTILLERY, WHICH IS CURRENTLY OPERATED
BY MOHAN MEAKIN.
 THE MANUFACTURE OF
WHISKY FROM MALTED
GRAINS IN INDIA WAS
PIONEERED BY AMRUT
DISTILLERIES IN
1982. AMRUT DISTILLERIES
BEGAN PROCURING
BARLEY FROM FARMERS
IN HARYANA, PUNJAB AND 
RAJASTHAN, IN ADDITION
TO MOLASSES, AND
LAUNCHED PRESTIGE
BLENDED MALT WHISKY IN
THE CANTEEN STORES
DEPARTMENT IN 1986
 DOMESTIC MARKET
 IN TERMS OF  WHISKY ACCOUNTS
VOLUME, INDIA IS FOR NEARLY 60% OF
THE INDIAN-MADE
THE BIGGEST
FOREIGN
CONSUMER OF LIQUOR MARKET. INDIA
WHISKY IN THE ACCOUNTED FOR
WORLD. IMPORT NEARLY HALF THE
TAXES ARE APPLIED GLOBAL WHISKY
MARKET BY VOLUME IN
BY THE CENTRAL
2010. THE MARKET IS
GOVERNMENT ON GENERALLY DIVIDED
IMPORTED SPIRITS.  INTO SEGMENTS BASED
ON PRICE.
 MANUFACTURERS
 FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF WHISKY PRODUCERS IN INDIA IN
ALPHABETICAL ORDER. THE LOCATION OF THE COMPANY
HEADQUARTERS IS GIVEN IN BRACKETS.
 AMRUT DISTILLERIES (BANGALORE, KARNATAKA)
 DIAGEO INDIA PVT LTD. (MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA)
 JOHN DISTILLERIES (BANGALORE, KARNATAKA)
 KHODAY INDIA LIMITED (BANGALORE, KARNATAKA)
 PINCON SPIRIT LIMITED, (KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL)
 MOHAN MEAKIN (GHAZIABAD, UTTAR PRADESH)
 RADICO KHAITAN (RAMPUR, UTTAR PRADESH)
 SEAGRAM MANUFACTURING LTD, OWNED BY PERNOD RICARD
 UNITED SPIRITS LIMITED (BANGALORE, KARNATAKA)
 INDIAN WHISKEY
 AMRUT

 McDOWELLS

 PAUL JOHN
 21ST CENTURY

 SIGNATURE

 AFTER DARK
 ROYAL STAG

 IMPERIAL BLUE

 BAGPIPER
JAPANESE WHISKEY
 JAPANESE WHISKY IS A
STYLE
OF WHISKY DEVELOPED AND
PRODUCED IN JAPAN.
WHISKY PRODUCTION IN
JAPAN BEGAN AROUND 1870,
BUT THE FIRST COMMERCIAL
PRODUCTION WAS IN 1924
UPON THE OPENING OF THE
COUNTRY'S
FIRST DISTILLERY, YAMAZAKI
. BROADLY SPEAKING THE
STYLE OF JAPANESE WHISKY
IS MORE SIMILAR TO THAT
OF SCOTCH WHISKY THAN
OTHER MAJOR STYLES OF
WHISKY.
 THERE ARE SEVERAL
COMPANIES PRODUCING
WHISKY IN JAPAN, BUT THE
TWO BEST-KNOWN AND
MOST WIDELY AVAILABLE
ARE SUNTORY AND NIKKA.
BOTH OF THESE
PRODUCE BLENDED AS WELL
AS SINGLE MALT WHISKIES
AND BLENDED
MALT WHISKIES, WITH THEIR
MAIN BLENDED WHISKIES
BEING
SUNTORY KAKUBIN ( SQUAR
E BOTTLE), AND BLACK
NIKKA CLEAR. THERE ARE
ALSO A LARGE NUMBER OF
SPECIAL BOTTLINGS
AND LIMITED EDITIONS.
 HISTORY
 TWO OF THE MOST  . HOWEVER, HE WAS NOT
INFLUENTIAL FIGURES IN THE
HISTORY OF JAPANESE WHISKY
ARE SHINJIRO TORII
AND MASATAKA TAKETSURU.
TORII WAS A PHARMACEUTICAL
WHOLESALER AND THE
FOUNDER OF KOTOBUKIYA
(LATER TO BECOME SUNTORY).
HE STARTED IMPORTING
WESTERN LIQUOR AND HE
LATER CREATED A BRAND
CALLED "AKADAMA PORT
WINE", BASED ON A
PORTUGUESE WINE WHICH
MADE HIM A SUCCESSFUL
MERCHANT.
SATISFIED WITH THIS SUCCESS
AND SO HE EMBARKED ON A
NEW VENTURE WHICH WAS TO
BECOME HIS LIFE'S WORK:
MAKING JAPANESE WHISKY FOR
JAPANESE PEOPLE. DESPITE
THE STRONG OPPOSITION FROM
THE COMPANY'S EXECUTIVES,
TORII DECIDED TO BUILD THE
FIRST JAPANESE WHISKY
DISTILLERY IN YAMAZAKI, A
SUBURB OF KYOTO, AN AREA SO
FAMOUS FOR ITS EXCELLENT
WATER THAT THE LEGENDARY
TEA MASTER SEN NO
RIKYŪ BUILT HIS TEAROOM
THERE.
 TORII
HIRED MASATAKA
TAKETSURU AS A
DISTILLERY
EXECUTIVE.
TAKETSURU HAD
STUDIED THE ART OF
DISTILLING IN
SCOTLAND, AND
BROUGHT THIS
KNOWLEDGE BACK TO
JAPAN IN THE EARLY
1920S
 THE FIRST WESTERNERS TO TASTE
JAPANESE WHISKY WERE SOLDIERS OF
THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
SIBERIA WHO TOOK SHORE LEAVE
IN HAKODATE IN SEPTEMBER 1918. A
BRAND CALLED QUEEN GEORGE,
DESCRIBED BY ONE AMERICAN AS A
"SCOTCH WHISKEY MADE IN JAPAN",
WAS WIDELY AVAILABLE. EXACTLY
WHAT IT WAS IS UNKNOWN, BUT IT
WAS QUITE POTENT AND PROBABLY
QUITE UNLIKE SCOTCH WHISKY.
 DISTILLERIES
 YAMAZAKI BY SUNTORY
 YAKUSHU BY SUNTORY

 YOICHI BY NIKKA

 MIYAGIKYO BY NIKKAFUJI GOTEMBO BY

KIRIN
 CHICHIBU BY ICHIRI AKUTO

 SHINSHU BY BOMBO

 WHITE OAK BY EIGASHIMA SHUZUO

AS OF 2011
 REPUTATION
 FOR SOME TIME IT WAS BELIEVED BY MANY
THAT WHISKY MADE IN THE SCOTTISH
STYLE, BUT NOT PRODUCED IN SCOTLAND,
COULD NOT POSSIBLY MEASURE UP TO THE
STANDARDS OF THE TRADITIONAL SCOTCH
WHISKY DISTILLERIES. BEFORE 2000, THE
MARKET FOR JAPANESE WHISKIES WAS
ALMOST ENTIRELY DOMESTIC, THOUGH
THIS CHANGED IN 2001 WHEN NIKKA'S 10-
YEAR YOICHI SINGLE MALT WON "BEST OF
THE BEST" AT WHISKY MAGAZINE'S AWARDS
 IN THE BLIND TASTING ORGANIZED BY WHISKY
MAGAZINE IN 2003, THE RESULTS OF WHICH
ARE PUBLISHED IN WM #30, THE WINNERS OF
THE CATEGORY "JAPANESE WHISKIES" WERE:
 HIBIKI 21 YO 43% (BLEND)
 NIKKA YOICHI 10 YO SC 59.9%
 YAMAZAKI BOURBON CASK 1991 60%
 KARUIZAWA 17 YO 40% (PURE MALT)

 IN 2004, THE 18-YEAR-OLD YAMAZAKI WAS

INTRODUCED TO THE US. JAPANESE WHISKIES
HAVE BEEN WINNING TOP HONORS IN
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS, NOTABLY
SUNTORY.
 AT THE 2003 INTERNATIONAL SPIRITS
CHALLENGE, SUNTORY YAMAZAKI WON A
GOLD MEDAL, AND SUNTORY WHISKIES
CONTINUED TO WIN GOLD MEDALS EVERY
YEAR THROUGH 2013,

  WITH ALL THREE MALT WHISKIES WINNING A

TROPHY (THE TOP PRIZE) IN EITHER 2012
(YAMAZAKI 18 YEARS OLD AND HAKUSHU 25
YEARS OLD) OR 2013 (HIBIKI 21 YEARS OLD),
AND SUNTORY ITSELF WINNING DISTILLER OF
THE YEAR IN 2010, 2012, AND 2013.

  THE RESULTANT ACCLAIM NUDGED JAPAN'S

DISTILLERIES TO MARKET OVERSEAS.
 STYLE
 THE PRODUCTION OF JAPANESE WHISKY
BEGAN AS A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO
RECREATE THE STYLE OF SCOTCH WHISKY.
PIONEERS LIKE TAKETSURU CAREFULLY
STUDIED THE PROCESS OF MAKING SCOTCH
WHISKY, AND WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS IN
AN ATTEMPT TO RECREATE THAT PROCESS
IN JAPAN. THE LOCATION OF YOICHI IN
HOKKAIDŌ WAS CHOSEN PARTICULARLY FOR
ITS TERRAIN AND CLIMATE, WHICH WERE IN
MANY WAYS REMINISCENT OF SCOTLAND.
 ONE FACET OF THE STYLE OF JAPANESE WHISKY COMES
FROM THE WAY IN WHICH BLENDED WHISKY IS PRODUCED,
AND THE DIFFERING NATURE OF THE INDUSTRY IN JAPAN.

 DESPITE THE RECENT RISE OF INTEREST IN SINGLE MALT

WHISKIES, THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHISKY SOLD IN THE
WORLD IS STILL BLENDED.

 IN SCOTLAND, WHILE A PARTICULAR BRAND OF BLENDED

WHISKY MAY BE OWNED BY A COMPANY THAT ALSO OWNS
ONE OR MORE DISTILLERIES, IT IS COMMON FOR BLENDED
WHISKY BOTTLERS TO TRADE SINGLE MALT WHISKIES.

 THE COMPONENTS OF A BLEND MAY INVOLVE MALT WHISKY

FROM A NUMBER OF DISTILLERIES, WHICH MAY BE OWNED BY
DIFFERENT COMPANIES. IN JAPAN. SO A BLENDED WHISKY IN
JAPAN WILL GENERALLY ONLY CONTAIN MALT WHISKY FROM
THE DISTILLERIES OWNED BY THAT SAME COMPANY.
 CONSUMPTION
 JAPANESE WHISKY IS CONSUMED EITHER LIKE
SCOTTISH WHISKY OR LIKE JAPANESE SHŌCHŪ.
THE BULK OF JAPANESE BLENDED WHISKY IS
CONSUMED IN COCKTAILS, NOTABLY AS
WHISKY HIGHBALLS ( HAIBŌRU) (SIMILAR TO
SHŌCHŪ HIGHBALLS, KNOWN AS CHŪHAI),

 WHILE FINE WHISKY IS PRIMARILY DRUNK

STRAIGHT OR ON THE ROCKS, AS WITH SCOTCH
WHISKY. ADVERTISING FOR BLENDED WHISKY
GENERALLY FEATURES IT CONSUMED IN A
HIGHBALL, AND HIGHBALLS MADE WITH
SUNTORY'S KAKUBIN ARE BRANDED KAKU-HAI .
 FAMOUS JAPANESE WHISKEY
BRANDS
 AKASHI
 CHITA

 FROM THE BARREL

 FUJI GOTEMBA

 HAKUSHU
 HIBIKI

 KAKU-BIN

 MIYAGIKYO

 NIKKA

 SUNTORY
 TAKETSURU

 TOKI

 YAMAZAKI

 YOICHI
THANK YOU