The chairman and managing director of Amrut distilleries based at Bangalore Neelakanta Rao Jagdale passed away. He died after a brief illness on Thursday. He was aged 66.
It was Jagdale who launched India’s very first single malt whiskey ‘.Amrut Fusion Single Malt Whiskey’. In 2010, Jim Murray, the celebrated whiskey expert selected it as the world’s third-best whiskey.
Jagdale’s company’s name received global recognition nine years ago when Amrut Fusion Single Malt Whisky was ranked the third finest whisky in the world by Jim Murray in his Whisky Bible.
Apart from his business interests, Jagdale was keen on promoting swimming among youth and established the Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre (BAC), were served as the president.
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