Style: Fruity and Spicy
Nose:
Charming, cheerful fruits dipped into malt syrup. Green pears hitting the high notes, white pepper dusting down. Copper, a dash of apple vinegar, finish with dry spices.
Palate:
Spice arrow carries the juicy fruity core and shoots across the palate. Starting with clean orchard fruits, lightly stewed as we progress. Sherry signatures on a more prominent display which the nose revealed very little, peaty sherry cask maybe? Toasted barley sugar, copper tune piping in again, vanilla marshmallows. Soft tannins wandering and finishes with a faint hint of coal-fired peat.
Finish:
Subdued red fruits whispering, brittle barley shatters. Delicious finish with texture.
Thoughts:
Spicy, but a beautiful piece from Kavalan. I heard it is an ex-Islay cask, and it feels like a refill sherry cask to me. Very limited amount of peat can be felt here, but the delivery of fruits is exceptionally fragrant, refined and delicious. A young malt no doubt, but it is showing qualities beyond its age.
☆ [Recommended]
[52.4%・Original Bottling ・Single Cask・Cask Strength・Non Coloured・Non Chill Filtered・286 of 311 Bottles・No Age Statement・Cask Number: R081211002A]
-Esmond
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