Photo: Jerry Lai from Hsinchu, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This award-winning whisky distillery is named after the indigenous Kavalan people, who originally inhabited the Kabalan Plain of modern-day Yilan County. The distillery was completed in December 2005.
Kavalan Distillery is a Taiwanese whisky distillery that produces single malt whisky, gin, and ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails. It is owned by the King Car Group and is located at Yuanshan Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. Founded in 2005, it is the first whisky distillery in Taiwan, with its first drop of spirit produced in March 2006 and its first product released in December 2008. In the years since, Kavalan Distillery has accumulated over 950 gold medals in international spirits competitions and expanded its distribution to more than 50 markets globally.
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