King Car Conductor Single Malt Whisky is produced at the Kavalan Distillery in Taiwan and is the first whisky to carry the King Car Group name instead of Kavalan. The whisky is aged in refill sherry and ex-bourbon barrels before being vatted and bottled. It is bottled at 46% ABV and sells for around $124.
More subtle and complex than some earlier bottlings of Kavalan, this has an exotic fruit, cream toffee, and soft banana nose, and has bitter orange, dark chocolate, and pepper on the palate. It's rapier-sharp, clean, and drying rather than sweet.
A somewhat hot attack (acetone) which contains tropical fruits (coconut and banana again) along with a smattering of greener fruit (apples and pears). Heavy and clinging taste of malts which is best decribed as 'gripy' in terms of mouthfeel. Winey notes come through with some vibrant wood spicing, in the form of cinnamon and pepper. Vanilla is ever present from what is clearly a heavy oak dosing.