Alice Lascelles, Douglas Blyde, Millie Milliken, Pritesh Mody, Max Venning and Francesco Braun will choose a cocktail competitors by a first-in-category spirit at The Six Brothers Mahura Masters.
South Seas Distilleries, one among India’s oldest malt distilleries, is poised to revolutionise the worldwide drinks market with the debut of Six Brothers Mahura: the world’s first-to-market spirit distilled from the culturally vital Mahura flower (Madhuca Longifolia, also referred to as Mahua, Mahuva, Mahuda or Mhowra), native to the forests of western and central India.
Revered for hundreds of years in India and generally known as the ‘Wishing Tree’, the Mahura tree represents abundance, resilience, progress, fertility and continuity. Its flower has lengthy been cherished in India by indigenous tribal communities and royalty alike. Its vibrant essence is woven into the material of the nation’s custom. But, throughout British colonial rule, it was banned, a strategic transfer to curb competitors with European spirit imports. Indigenous tribal communities have been denied the liberty to supply or promote it past the confines of their village markets. Now, with the launch of Six Brothers Mahura, a forgotten Indian heritage spirit is reborn, heralding the revival of Mahura.
South Seas Distilleries introduces two Mahura merchandise to its vary of spirits, every crafted from the naturally candy distillate of the sun-kissed Mahura flower. Six Brothers 1922 Resurrection Mahura is a limited-edition ultra-premium launch of solely 102 bottles, and the world’s first and oldest matured Mahura spirit. Accessible by unique allocation, it embodies the head of uncommon craftsmanship and enduring magnificence, a real testomony to being leaders of leaders within the class since 1922. The second expression, Six Brothers Small Batch Mahura is premium spirit, double-distilled in copper pot stills and platinum filtered and can launch within the UK in 2025, marking the primary time Mahura distilled in India has ever been bought outdoors of India.
After a century of prohibition, these releases honour the imaginative and prescient and perseverance of the six brothers, who pledged to protect and inform the story of the time-honoured indigenous legacy of the Mahura spirit for future generations, all around the world. Thus, reclaiming the household’s legacy, because the earliest producers of this heritage spirit.
Crafted for the discerning palate, Six Brothers Mahura is in contrast to some other spirit. Honouring the bountiful items of the Mahura tree. It connects the previous with the current, integrating historic heritage and custom with a complicated technique of double distillation in India’s oldest and largest copper pot stills, the identical pot stills which have given start to the oldest single malts in India and additional platinum filtered, igniting a spirit as distinctive and memorable because the story behind it.
It affords a fancy and fragrant profile that begins with candy, earthy notes of dried fruits, pepper, and ginger, adopted by a clear, spicy end with lingering raisin and hay. It lends itself to a variety of flavour profiles to create daring and complicated cocktails for individuals who have a thirst for all times and cherish connection.
Each sip of Six Brothers Mahura is a celebration of life’s richness, embodying the Mahura tree’s pure abundance and generosity, with a reference to the uncooked vitality and vibrancy of India’s wilderness.
The Six Brothers Mahura Masters: Shaping the Way forward for Mahura within the UK
To mark the UK launch of Six Brothers Mahura and this revolutionary class on the planet of spirits, the model has begun to interact various London’s most celebrated and promising bartenders in a prestigious cocktail competitors: The Six Brothers Mahura Masters.
The competitors might be held in March at Rosewood London’s Scarfes Bar, recognised as one of many world’s greatest bars by 50 Greatest. The resort’s Director of Bars, Andy Loudon mentioned:
“Scarfes Bar is a globally celebrated venue, famend for its wealthy storytelling, artistic ingenuity, and its place as one of many World’s 50 Greatest Bars. Its design, impressed by the timeless magnificence of gentleman’s golf equipment and adorned with Gerald Scarfe’s iconic caricatures, creates an area that embodies creativeness and wit — the right setting for the launch of a brand new spirit class with Six Brothers Mahura. With a legacy of redefining cocktail tradition by means of creativity and narrative pushed storytelling, Scarfes Bar naturally aligns with the symbolism of the Mahura flower: uncommon, vibrant, and filled with chance. The venue’s historical past of internet hosting world-class competitions and championing forward-thinking bartending makes it a becoming stage to unveil a spirit that, just like the Mahura, signifies progress, transformation, and a daring new chapter on the planet of cocktails.”
Drinks Critic Douglas Blyde, one among The Six Brothers Mahura Masters’ esteemed judges provides:
“The competitors offers a possibility to introduce this groundbreaking spirit to the UK market, participating the capital’s greatest expertise within the course of. Bartenders could have the distinctive likelihood to form the best way Mahura as a class is acquired within the UK, and to push the boundaries of what this versatile spirit can do in cocktails.”
The competitors will see two winners recognised for creating essentially the most impressed and well-balanced serves utilizing 40-60ml of Six Brothers Mahura, for which they are going to be rewarded with a memorable and splendid journey to India. The winners will go to the birthplace of Six Brothers Mahura to be taught extra about its cultural and distilling heritage, visiting on the time of the bloom of the Mahura tree.
The competitors might be judged by six of the drinks business’s most revered names:
- FT HTSI drinks columnist and writer, Alice Lascelles
- Wine & spirits advisor and columnist, Douglas Blyde
- Award-winning spirits, cocktail and hospitality author and editor, Millie Milliken
- Cocktail knowledgeable and Sunday Brunch presenter, Pritesh Mody
- Founding father of acclaimed cocktail Three Sheets, Max Venning
- Bartender and beverage advisor, Francesco Braun
The judges met by appointment with a few of London’s most celebrated and promising bartenders, providing an unique first style of the liquid. With the attract of one thing new and particular, they have been profitable in recruiting representatives from a group of the capital’s most enjoyable unbiased, resort and restaurant bars, to create a signature serve utilizing the world’s first Mahura spirit.
Collaborating venues embody World’s 50 Greatest Bar awarded Scarfes Bar, SAMBAROOM cocktail bar & lounge that boasts views throughout the town from its thirty ninth flooring location, the Indian influenced speakeasy cocktail bar, SOMA, new late evening lounge, LUUM identified for its assortment of uncommon and distinctive spirits, and iconic resort bars from The Dorchester’s Vesper Bar to Le Magritte at The Beaumont.
The competitors serves as an introduction to a really distinctive spirit and a pivotal second for bartenders to assist form its legacy within the UK.
Restricted areas are nonetheless obtainable for hopeful bartenders to enter the competitors, which might be held on Monday third March in London. To register curiosity, please contact: sixbrothers@luchford.com
Tasting Notes of Six Brothers Mahura (ABV 40%)
- Nostril: Candy, earthy aromas with hints of dried hay, inexperienced figs, apricots, raisins, and prunes, layered with black pepper and dried ginger.
- Palate: A daring sweetness balanced by gentle savoury notes and a contact of salinity, adopted by dried fruit and a tingling peppery end.
- End: Clear and spicy, with a lingering sweetness of raisin and hay.
