HOT ! Other Products ｜Camikara Limited Edition 8 Years Old Small Batch Rum

Camikara 8 is the flagship — the bottle Piccadily Distilleries built the brand around once the forgotten-barrel 12 Year proved India could make serious rum. Piccadily is the northern Indian house behind Indri single malt, which scores in the 90s with Whisky Advocate's panel, and Camikara — Sanskrit for "liquid gold" — is its rum: distilled from fresh sugarcane juice, agricole-style, rather than the molasses or jaggery nearly all Indian rum uses, which master blender Surrinder Kumar calls far more challenging in a tropical climate where cane juice spoils in hours. The 8 Year is a blend of pot-still and column-still cane rum, aged eight years in bourbon barrels through the extreme heat of Haryana's plains — an angels' share of 10 to 12 percent a year — and bottled at 42.8% ABV (85.6 proof) with no added color, flavor, sugar, or spice. Drinkhacker found it grassy and surprisingly clean on the nose, the gentle petrol character of cane rum well-tempered, with earthiness percolating through. Whisky Advocate places it in the agricole tradition with bourbon-cask maturation adding sweetness and depth. Expect honey, toffee, dried fruit, and vanilla from the oak over a grassy, faintly funky cane-juice core, finishing warm with wood and spice. Honest note: The Lone Caner rated it middling next to the 12 — it's a younger, more accessible bottle, and priced that way. For an unusual Rum Old Fashioned, a Ti' Punch with a twist, or neat as a conversation piece, it's India's answer to Martinique.Buy Camikara 8 Year Old Small Batch Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.
Brand:Chips LiquorSKU:C0007573L