Andalusia Whiskey Co.
Lost Lantern
61.15%
3 Years
Released in 2025, this is a member of independent bottler Lost Lantern's Single Cask series. Lost Lantern sources casks from distilleries across America for its bottlings. This one comes from the Blanco, Texas-based Andalusia Whiskey Co., a distillery founded by a pair of brewers. Andalusia is known for its American single malt whiskeys, and this is one of those. Ten percent of the malted barley distilled to make this whiskey was peated by Andalusia using Irish peat. Peating is a common practice in scotch whisky but is quite uncommon in America. This whiskey was aged in a barrel that previously held Stryker — an Andalusia single malt smoked with Texas wood — for two years and six months, and then finished in an ex-Añejo tequila cask for six months. It is bottled at 122.3 proof, with a total of 150 bottles released at $100 each.
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Killer nose: herbaceous, earthy and sweet. Powerful, medicinal peat leads, with some light, smooth agave notes in tow. Graham cracker, mint, honey.
Bright palate with lots of agave character at the forefront. Light peat fills in on the sides and back of the tongue. Rosemary, bubblegum, cinnamon, vanilla, dark chocolate-coated mint and a bit of tannin.
Some heat on the finish, which is long, concluding with cane sugar, mint leaves, eucalyptus, bubblegum, clove, tangerine and some subtle earthy peat that's very welcome among the sweeter notes. I'd love more peat influence, to be frank. The sweetness really hangs around on the finish and is a bit overbearing.
This is a sweet, bright whiskey. The peat influence is pretty restrained, and the tequila finish isn't overwhelmingly domineering in the way tequila finishes often are. There are a lot of moving parts in this expression, and the balance is impressive. It is held back, though, by the intensely saccharine finish. The sweetness is a bit too much, lingers and is out of place. If that could be dialed back, it would allow more focus on that subtle peat, which is the part of the pour that really sings, especially on the finish. All things considered, this is a good and complex but flawed single malt.
87
Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.
