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The
Kincardine is a blend of whisky from
Scotland's Glen Elgin and Macallan
distillery's and single malt whisky from
India's Amrut distillery .
 The
creative folks at Edinburgh based Fusion
Whisky Limited have been busy once
again, last year they brought us a
pioneering blend of Scotch and Japanese
whisky named The Glover, they have now
released a blend of Scotch and Indian
whisky named The Kincardine.
The
Kincardine blended malt whisky is a
blend of single malt whiskies from
Scotland's Glen Elgin and Macallan
distilleries and single malt whisky from
India's Amrut distillery in Bangalore.
The Kincardine takes its name from
Victor Bruce, a Scottish politician who
was the 9th Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl
of Kincardine, he served as Viceroy and
Governor General of India between 1894
and 1899. The Scot hand a major hand in
the modernisation of India's railways
and linking the cities of Bombay, Delhi,
Calcutta, Madras and Karachi by rail.
Edinburgh-based Fusion Whisky Limited
launched The Glover series of premium
whiskies last year in honour of
"Scottish Samurai" Thomas Blake Glover.
Made by blending Scotch with extremely
rare whisky from Japan, The Glover
pioneered the concept of fusing malt
whiskies from international
distilleries.
Now the company is launching The
Kincardine brand to celebrate the
historic ties between India and Scotland
and honour the life of Victor Bruce, the
9th Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of
Kincardine, who served as Viceroy and
Governor General of India between
1894-99.
The Kincardine whisky was blended by
Victor's great-grandson Alex Bruce,
master blender and managing director of
Adelphi Distillery, based in Fife.
Alex commented: "With The Kincardine,
we've blended two single casks of malt
whisky from Amrut Distillery in
Bangalore with Scotch whisky from Glen
Elgin and Macallan distilleries. The
fruitiness of the mature Speyside malts
works beautifully with the Indian
whisky, creating a very complex,
international flavour. It has its own
unique profile, showing both the
individual elements that different
maturation climates can offer and, at
the same time, capturing a new overall
style. I was really excited by both the
challenge and the outcome".
He added: "It was a genuine privilege to
create this whisky in honour of my
great-grandfather, and great to develop
a product that it is an example of the
strong, positive and long-lasting
relations between Scotland and India."
The Kincardine was bottled at 52.9% ABV
and is a limited release of 800 bottles, although Fusion Whisky said
there was scope to produce more variants
of both The Kincardine and the
Scotch/Japanese blended malt The Glover
in the future. It will be available from
specialist online whisky retailers such
as
Master of Malt
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