Product description
The Yuan Shand Distillery, producer of Kavalan single malt, was built in 2005 in Yilan County, Taiwan by King Car Food Industrial Company.
The whisky debuted three years later and immediately started winning various whisky competitions. The success of the brand has been so great (it scored 180 medals and awards) that in 2015 the owners decided to increase capacity from 1.5 million to 4.5 million liters of spirit per annum. In 2017 another expansion was completed, which increased number of stills to 20 and capacity to 9 million liters. The Solist range featuring single cask whiskies aged in various types of wood was launched in the late 2009. The whisky presented here comes from ex-Oloroso sherry butt no. S 100209001A. The butt yielded 457 bottles of cask strength whisky (58,6% abv).
Nose: clean and complex, dried apricots and mango, papaya, raisins, honey-roasted almonds, vanilla, nutmeg and sherried oak.
Palate: slightly oily, strong sherry notes, raisins, dark chocolate, prunes, blood oranges, mango, hints of marzipan, crème brûlée, cinnamon and oak.
Finish: fairly long, with notes of raisins, prunes, nutmeg, pepper, roasted almonds, caramel and oak.