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Lost Lantern United States of Bourbon Cask Strength

Bourbon
  • Distiller

    Various

  • Bottler

    Lost Lantern

  • ABV

    61.45%

  • Age

    NAS

  • Price $60 to $99.99

United States of Bourbon Cask Strength is a blend of straight bourbon whiskies sourced from one distillery in each of the 50 states and blended by Lost Lantern in Vergennes, Vermont. It is a fully transparent release, with all component distilleries listed on the label and personally vetted by the brand’s cofounders.

Bottled at its natural cask strength of 61.45% ABV (122.9 proof), it includes bourbons aged between 2 and 10 years. The whiskey is non-chill filtered with no added color and is limited to 3,300 bottles, with a suggested retail price of $99.99.

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Aggregated Reviews
  • Raided Score: 98
  • Whiskey In My Wedding Ring
  • By Whiskey in My Wedding Ring
  • Cognac, well-aged in mostly worn casks where you get a great maturation vessel without much wood influence. Incredibly deep, cooked down fruit, grapes and stone fruits.
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  • Raided Score: 91
  • The Daily Pour
  • By David Morrow
  • This is a groundbreaking and exciting experiment, and I’m happy to report that the whiskey is excellent. I can’t even begin to imagine how much work went into blending this — kudos, Lost Lantern.
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House Review
  • Nose:

    The nose is dense, buttery, confectionary and complex. There’s a big caramel fudge note, alongside waffle cone, cornbread, brûléed brown sugar, oatmeal raisin cookies and cream cheese frosting.

  • Taste:

    The mouthfeel is moderate, coating the palate nicely. It drinks fairly hot. Flavorwise, there’s loads going on. I first pick up a nice creamy caramel note, quickly followed by a grainy character that reads somewhere between rye and wheat. There’s also a minerality at play, plus more of that oatmeal raisin cookies note from the nose. There’s quite a bit of spice here as well — cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, mostly, and a bit of clove — plus banana bread, chestnut, plum, brandied cherries, a pronounced almond note, leather and a sprig of mint.

  • Finish:

    The finish is toasty and dark, opening with cracked pepper, banana walnut muffins and tobacco and then segueing into a dark-fruit profile of cherry, raisin and plum. It peters out from there, leaving you with dark fruit, leather and a bit of spice.

  • Overall:

    A good and very complex bourbon that will have you trying to pull different flavor notes out for as long as you enjoy it. This is a groundbreaking and exciting experiment, and I’m happy to report that the whiskey is excellent. I can’t even begin to imagine how much work went into blending this — kudos, Lost Lantern.

  • Score:

    91

  • Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.

  • By David Morrow
  • Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources