Tasting Notes For Kavalan Solist Sherry Cask
Nose: Clean and complex with multi-layers of dried fruit, nuttiness and spices with some marzipan and vanilla touches to it as well.
Taste: Rich, oily and full with pleasant dried fruit and spices that linger on in the mouth plus a hint of fine coffee.
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The Kavalan Solist range is the crème de la crème of the Kavalan stable. Only single barrels are included, and all are bottled at cask strength without chill filtration to retain flavour.
Matured in top quality special edition Oloroso sherry casks, Kavalan Solist Oloroso Sherry is bottled at the distillery, without any colouring or chill-filtration. It is a naturally smooth and rich whisky with a complex character. Clean and complex with multiple layers of dried fruit, nuttiness and spices, it has some marzipan and vanilla touches to it as well.
Every bottle of Kavalan is double distilled and aged in one of Kavalan’s two maturation warehouses, each 5 storeys high, where it is left to mature in the tropical heat of Taiwan’s East Coast until the whiskies are judged by the master blender to be at their peak perfection.
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San Francisco World Spirits Competition: Double Gold - 2016, 2017, 2018
San Francisco World Spirits Competition: Gold Medal - 2019
Tokyo Whisky & Spirits Competition: Gold Medal - 2020
International Spirits Challenge: Gold Medal - 2020 -
Kavalan Distillery has been pioneering the art of single malt whisky in Yilan County, Taiwan since 2005. Kavalan sources the mineral-rich meltwaters of Snow Mountain and is aged in a unique combination of intense heat and humidity together with sea and mountain breezes. All this combines to create the quality, smoothness, and fruity character for which Kavalan is known.
Kavalan takes Yilan County's old name. A land of blessings, it was here that entrepreneur Mr. Tien-Tsai Lee dreamed of a new whisky homeland and a ‘century-old’ distillery to last generations.
Mr. T.T. Lee’s ambition to create Taiwan’s first whisky took him across the old world to the sacred distilleries of Scotland and Japan. He knew to compete, Taiwan must be world-class, and this tested every sinew of his resolve.
Kavalan brings together a highly skilled R&D team which takes on the legacy of renowned whisky specialist, the late Dr. Jim Swan. It is backed by King Car Group and its more than 40 years of beverage experience and knowledge.
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Producer King Car Distillery Style Single Cask Single Malt bottled at Cask Strength Age No age statement Volume 70CL ABV 59.4%