US bourbon bets big on India's growing market

Facing a decades-long inventory glut, U.S. bourbon producers eye India's expanding whiskey market as a critical outlet for surplus stock.

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America's bourbon industry, facing its most serious inventory crisis in decades, is increasingly betting on India's rapidly growing whiskey market to soak up a massive oversupply of aged spirits. With domestic consumption plateauing and warehouse stocks at historic highs, distillers from Kentucky to Tennessee are now looking to the world's largest whiskey market by volume as a potential lifeline for their uniquely American product. The crisis stems from a decade-long production boom that began in the early 2010s, when craft distilleries proliferated and major producers expanded capacity to meet surging demand. Bourbon, by law, must be aged in new charred oak barrels, meaning today's surplus is the result of strategic bets made years ago. Now, with that aged whiskey coming of age, the market is flooded with far more product than current drinkers can consume, forcing prices down and…

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