Eclipse: Sula squeezes grapes into scotch to create a new whisky

The Eclipse, with its vanilla and fruity palette, is easy to drink on the rocks

There’s nothing as important as whisky for an average Indian. Why else would Sula, the maker of India’s best known wines, turn its hand to creating a whisky? 

From a business point of view, it makes perfect sense. India is the largest whisky consumer in the Asia-Pacific region, and, according to a global research undertaken this year, one of the fastest growing markets in the world. A study by Bank of America Merrill Lynch found that in 2014, Indians consumed 1.5 million litres of whisky — over three times the amount of whisky consumed by the United States, which consumed only