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Kavalan sources the mineral-rich meltwaters of Snow Mountain and is aged in a unique combination of intense heat and humidity together with sea and mountain breezes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKavalan takes Yilan County's old name. A land of blessings, it was here that entrepreneur Mr. Tien-Tsai Lee dreamed of a new whisky homeland and a ‘century-old’ distillery to last generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMr. T.T. Lee’s ambition to create Taiwan’s first whisky took him across the old world to the sacred distilleries of Scotland and Japan. He knew to compete, Taiwan must be world-class, and this tested every sinew of his resolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn January 2010, one of the distillery's products caused a stir by beating three Scotch whiskies and one English whisky in a blind tasting organised in Leith, Scotland, to celebrate Burns Night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe distillery was named by Whisky Magazine as the World Icons of Whisky \"Whisky Visitor Attraction of the Year\" for 2011, and its products have won several other awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKavalan brings together a highly skilled R\u0026amp;D team which takes on the legacy of renowned whisky specialist, the late Dr. Jim Swan. 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