Indri whisky gets a 180-bottle Diwali port-cask edition
Piccadily Distilleries finishes its Diwali Collector's Edition 2026 in ex-ruby port casks from Portugal, selling 180 numbered bottles in the UK at £200 each, cask strength, no age statement.
Indri whisky, the Indian single malt made by Piccadily Distilleries in Haryana, has released a Diwali Collector's Edition 2026 finished in ex-ruby port casks from Portugal, on sale in the UK this week.
The whisky carries no age statement. It is bottled at cask strength, 58.5% ABV, and limited to 180 numbered bottles. Each costs £200, about $265, sold exclusively through off-premise spirits specialists in the UK during the week of 5-9 October.
A cask finish built for heat
A port finish and tropical heat can age a young Indian single malt far past its years.
Port-cask finishing is borrowed directly from Scotch, where sherry and port casks typically season spirit aged a decade or more. Indri whisky matures differently. Haryana's heat speeds the exchange between spirit and wood, so a few years in cask can pull as much colour and tannin as a much longer maturation in a cooler climate.
That is why no age statement appears on the label, and why the distillery leans on cask type and timing instead. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, falls in October and November and has become the anchor for Indri's most collectible annual releases, following a Sicilian Marsala-cask edition in the same 180-bottle run last time out.
Indri whisky's crowded export market
Indian single malt has grown fast. Industry body CIABC puts 2025 volumes at roughly 500,000 cases, up 22% on the prior year and 43% over three years, with homegrown producers holding 92% of that market. Indri itself was named the world's fastest-growing single malt in 2024, selling 170,000 cases globally.
It competes with Amrut, Rampur and Paul John for shelf space in markets that once treated Indian whisky as a curiosity. All four now sell limited, cask-finished editions in the UK, the US, Japan and Germany, often priced closer to premium Scotch than to the blends that dominate India's domestic market. A £25,800 Glenmorangie sets one ceiling; a £200 Indri whisky aims at a newer, younger collector.
The scarcity model is not new to premium whisky marketing. Limited Asian single malts, including recent Japanese releases sold into the US, use the same fixed-run approach to move stock fast and keep secondary-market interest high.
The Indian Malt Whisky Association introduced a hologram certification mark this year to authenticate bottles as demand, and counterfeiting risk, rises abroad. Indri has not said whether the port-cask edition will travel beyond the UK once this allocation sells out, or what cask the next Diwali bottling will use.
At 180 bottles, the release will do more for Indri's profile than for its bottom line. Scarcity, not volume, is the point.
