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 Kavalan brand debuted three years later and immediately started winning various whisky competitions. The success of the brand was 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 was launched in the late 2009 and consists of single cask whiskies aged in various types of wood. Here is whisky aged in ex-Oloroso sherry cask no. S 170425052D and bottled at 54.8% abv. The Solist range is bottled of natural color, without chill-filtration and at natural strength.
Nose: clean and complex, distinctive sherry notes, raisins, prunes, dried apricots, walnuts, honey, vanilla, marzipan, mocha, nutmeg, clove and oak.
Palate: toffee, honey, coffee, chocolate-coated cherries, raisins, roasted almonds, cinnamon, clove, a drop of balsamic vinaigrette, touch of leather and oak.
Finish: fairly long, with notes of sherry, raisins, orange peel, sugared almonds, ginger, nutmeg, sherry and oak.