I must start this review by saying I have limited experience with single-malt whiskeys. However, I will do my best to share my tasting notes in this Lost Lantern Desert Dessert Whiskey Del Bac Arizona Single Malt review. The first thing I notice about this whiskey, distilled and aged for 1 year in Tucson, Arizona, is that the alcohol percentage of 56.9% is right up my alley.
According to Lost Lantern, an independent bottler of American whiskey out of Vermont, the whiskey in this release was made with Whiskey Del Bac’s classic mesquite-smoked mash bill of 40% mesquite-smoked malted barley and 60% unsmoked malted barley. A portion of that whiskey was also finished in casks that previously held Sauternes, a sweet French wine from the region of the same name in the Graves section in Bordeaux, and Pineau des Charentes, the richly sweet regional aperitif of western France.
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Sample provided by Lost Lantern with no expectations.