The Awards 2025 Las Vegas Global Spirits Awards showed the growing importance of Indian free malts on the global scene, with four of the five finalist slots in the world category of whiskey secured by various Indian whiskey.
This American, industrial competition evaluates ghost characteristics through fully blind tastings of veteran judges from various professions, including distillers, buyers, bartenders, teachers and media.
Items are flights and evaluated at a 100-point frame for their appearance, smell, palate, balance and surface. Judges also publish short descriptions of finalists and tastings about why these whisks were selected among the best in the world, Fortune reported.
Indri’s Diwali Collector’s Edition wins awards
The winner of the competition, which ensured the highest honors as the world’s best whiskey with an almost perfect score of 99.1 points, was Piccadily Diwali’s Collector’s Edition 2025, Marsala Cask Finish (60% ABV).
The name is derived from its production site, Indri, Haryan. This brand is made of Indian six -seater barley using traditional copper containers and is known for the limited release of the “Diwali Collectors Edition”.
The tastings pointed out that whiskey has the scent of candy orange and apricot, gold raisins, fig jam, honeycomb, vanilla and seasoned oak. Kask Marsala adds a distinctive nut and almond/marzipan note.
Dominance Devans Modern Breweries
Devans Modern breweries from Jammu secured the remaining three Indian finalistic slots and showed the width of their assortment Malt Gianchand (all 42.8% ABV).
He was named after the founder, Dewan Gian Chand, and matured in hot years and cold winters of Jammu. Whiskey is a peat malt forming from 100% Indian barley.
Gianchand, Manshaa, peat malt protruded with their wet stone and salty/salty scent, along with tones of fine medicinal peat, lemon oil, sandalwood and oak.
Whiskey series Gianchand
Their flagship Gianchand, the signature of the Indian single malt whiskey, offers a slightly smoke figure with an aroma gingerbread, dried apricot, cut, honeycomb and a fine seasoned oak with weak peat.
Their success was rounded by Gianchand, Adambaraa, an unused only malt that was in the American former barrels and previously won several awards in 2025, including the best Indian IWC whiskey.
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Whisks have fine floral and honey aromas with tones of peaches, vanilla, caramel and first bourbon wood.
International finalist
The only non -Indian finalist was the Krauss’s Sulm Valley whiskey (48% ABV) from Austria. This Austrian straight whiskey from Bourbon is made of a porridge of approximately 70% of local corn Sulm Valley and ripens in a newly roasted American oak.
Whiskey offers the scent of sweet corn, stone fruit, banana fries and vanilla, with hints of wax and leather tones, Fortune reported.
CASK CRAFT, Barley, Barley, Jet Best Score on LVGSA 2025
The results of the LVGSA 2025 have shown a clear trend that Indian only malt whiskey competes and wins on the world scene, with the highest CASK, barley and texture best scores.
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The winners won medals made of platinum, gold, silver and bronze for the appropriate positions, with special quotes for the best in category and best in the show. The producers of each whiskey also receive the assessment feedback that they can use to improve quality and marketing, and the results of the medals are widely introduced on labels, sellers of leaves and retail shelves, Fortune reported.
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