← Kavalan
Kavalan 15th Anniversary
- Age
- No age statement
- ABV
- 46%
- Introduced
- 2023
Tasting
How it drinks
- Sight
- Deep amber with ruby-copper highlights; complex multi-cask marriage gives rich, layered colour
- Nose
- Celebration of Kavalan's range — tropical fruit, dried fruit, wine character, vanilla, chocolate, orange peel. Vinho barrique adds wine complexity, sherry adds depth, bourbon adds cream. Multilayered and evolving. Rose, leather, toffee
- Palate
- Full body. Complex marriage — mango, dried fig, blackberry, dark chocolate, vanilla cream, toffee. Wine barrique plum and cherry, sherry raisin and walnut, bourbon vanilla and coconut. All three cask types discernible yet harmonious. Kavalan's finest blending achievement
- Finish
- Very long finish. Layers resolve slowly — fruit, wine, chocolate, spice. Leather and rose at close. A fitting tribute to 15 years of world-class tropical maturation
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- Rare cask selection — ex-bourbon
- ex-sherry
- and vinho barrique casks married for 15th anniversary in 2023
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