First Impressions
Indri Trini — Sanskrit for 'three' — burst onto the world stage in 2023 when it was named 'Best in Show, Double Gold' at the Whiskies of the World Awards in San Francisco, beating every Scotch, bourbon and Japanese whisky in the competition. At 46% and around £60, it's also astonishing value.
Distillery & Heritage
Piccadily Distilleries is located in Indri, a small town in Haryana in northern India, and uses Indian six-row barley along with water from the Yamuna river system. The Trini expression is matured in three cask types — ex-bourbon, ex-sherry (oloroso) and ex-PX sherry — in a warehouse climate that sees temperatures swing from near-freezing winters to 45°C summers. That range drives remarkable extraction in a short time.
Tasting Notes in Detail
The nose is sherry-forward — honey, dried apricot, fig, raisin — wrapped in toasted oak, milk chocolate and cinnamon. The palate is rich and rounded: honey, dates, fig roll, orange marmalade and dark chocolate, with PX sweetness and gentle clove spice. The finish is long and warming, trailing raisin, cocoa and soft oak.
Verdict
Everything the hype promises and then some. Richly sherried, beautifully balanced and absurdly well-priced — one of the great-value world whiskies of the decade.
