Kavalan Sherry Oak Single Malt

N: very sherried (rubbery). Plum P: nuts, raisins, figs, warming spices F: roasted almond, sugar, creamy, some all spices

Really great whiskey if you find yourself in the mood for sherry influence, or even a general sweetness. It’s exceptionally smooth for a presumably very young whiskey, and has an amazingly dark mahogany color. Almost tastes like a fortified wine on its own, given the degree of sherry influence. Really strong aroma is immediately present upon opening the bottle. Obviously the sherry influence gives a lot of flavors of dried cherries, dried cranberries, raisins, and other dried fruit flavors, alongside some hints of nuttiness, spices, and vanilla. Really rich flavor, definitely a go-to for sherry casks.

Drank px as reference spirit then tried this for the second time. Garbage. Dry and poorly integrated sherry/whisky notes. Weak sherry influence at that, just in the background. Only saving grace is this young whisky doesn’t taste very young with the usual unpleasant malty notes. Very overpriced, too mediocre to drink again.

cherry berries, sweet grape, complexity, dark chocolate, musky oaky wood, sweetness, toffee, high pep 3 bitterness, oaky, cherry, toffee, oily and saw dust, mid to high pep, bitterness at the rear 1.75 oaky high sustained, light smoke 2.25 2 moss thick, oaky, grape, red fruits, mid high pep,, berries, cherry,2.75 creamy, mossy, red fruits, grapes, berry, mid pep, oaky and woody - 2.5 oaky and thick bitterness, mid sustain 2 2.25