Lost Whiskey Club - High Wheat Gold Antler

Here appears to be a newcomer to the whiskey scene that I was swayed into purchasing after a cordial whiskey discussion with a manager at my nearest ABC store and her recommendation along with wanting to provide a little support to a small craft distillery made here in Virginia with an entry price of a $30 for a 375ml. From what I could find, the mashbill is 51% corn, 45% rye, 4% malted barley, aged no more than 5 years since they were founded in 2016 and is bottled at 45%. The bottle comes with a nice leather tag that you can pull on to take the plastic condom off the top with a barrel and story number for you to jot down in a whiskey diary of the bottle and story that coincides with it being consumed. Marketing says that these are bottled in a 375ml so that you can easily drink the full bottle in one setting with friends, so they appear to be going for getting wasted over a bonfire. Well time to crack my bottle open which is bottle no. 30 and story no. 336 and see if this will be tasty enough for me to find my drunken frontiersman or just pour it down a drain. The nose starts with chocolate covered pinwheel cookies followed by charred orange peel and caramel cinnamon apple fritter then high rye spices along with nutmeg, cloves, spearmint and roasted peanuts with the shell on with light ethanol burn. The taste is a thin-medium mouthfeel starting with a caramel covered s’mores sandwich followed by fruits of apple peel and orange zest before a medium spice before finally transitioning to barrel spices of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, light spearmint chewing gum and light oak with a medium ethanol burn. The finish is medium length with toasted marshmallow, shell on roasted peanuts, graham cracker, milk chocolate, orange zest, apple coffee cake, spearmint, dill, and light oak spice. So this isn’t drink a full bottle, strip down naked, run around in the great outdoors and chase BigFoot level of whiskey but is very enjoyable with some toasted marshmallow flavor along with traditional bourbon flavors and high rye notes that is incredibly easy to drink without any tannic bitterness or youthful astringency that can easily be enjoyed with friends. This profile seems vaguely familiar so a raid to my whiskey cabinets resulted in a side by side with my Nulu toasted bourbon that was aged for 5 years and 2 months and this is basically the same whiskey. I then grabbed what was left of my Smoke Wagon Small Batch and this was almost an exact match. This does not seem like a Virginia distillate, but probably a sourced MGP that has been aged in Virginia. If I’m wrong, then I’m impressed that this Virginia distillate can resemble good young MGP and they deserve some credit for creating something very enjoyable for a young distillery.

These tastings can all be different because they're single barrels. That being said, this review pertains to Barrel #01, straight bourbon whiskey, 90 proof. Nose: Herbal, some musk, honey, nuts, ethanol burns strongly with this one. Kind of has a potpourri smell Palate: Sweet, simple, some spice, a little nutty, you can tell this is young Finish: Some burn and tannins Basic whiskey from a new distillery that had to get something out there to make some money back. Not a bad first effort, but needs more time in the barrel. As this distillery gets older I'd certainly try their longer aged offerings. Sure I'll take some

Barrel 111 story 206 Waited a long time to try this, finally ended up on sale. Around is vanilla, caramel, and oak. Perhaps with some blackberry. Flavor is a little hot considering the somewhat low abv. Toasted oak, caramel, and dried fruit.

Nice and smooth with a very light presentation. Kinda hard to pinpoint a set of flavors as nothing is extremely present. A very enjoyable bourbon and maybe a second bottle will be more revealing. I had Barrel No. 93 and Story No. 262.

There is a lot of heat in this one neat. On ice it cools down a little but it is still spicy.

Good, reminds me of Makers Mark, but overpriced at $30 for 375ml