Breaking Bourbon – Best American Whiskeys of 2024
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This year’s Single Cask #11: Leiper’s Fork Tennessee Whiskey is Lost Lantern’s first Tennessee whiskey release, and their first release from Leiper’s Fork Distillery, a small-scale distillery located in Franklin, Tennessee. Producing roughly 500 barrels a year, Leiper’s Fork won’t be on many people’s radar, however, Lost Lantern is trying to change that. This small distillery isn’t producing Tennessee whiskey like you may be used to and it shows in Single Cask #11.
This is a slow burn whiskey in that the more you sit with it, the more it reveals itself. It’s the definition of a “slow burn” whiskey if there ever was one. An expansive range of flavors delivers a sip that is sweet, savory, and spicy all at once. This is a whiskey that will push you in all the right ways and the challenge it presents comes along with a reward that is well worth it. An intensely unique whiskey that leaves a wonderful and lasting impression, shining light on a small unknown distillery, epitomizing what Lost Lantern set out to accomplish.
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