Santa Fe
Santa Fe
DISTILLERY: Santa Fe
ABV: 59.9% NCS
AGE: 4 Years
CAT: Single Malt American Whisky
BATCH: #2
RRP: £89.95
Our second release from Santa Fe Spirits, using malted barley smoked with locally sourced mesquite wood, and matured in new American Oak barrel.
What’s Mesquite? I hear you ask (I had to Google it too.) Mesquite is the smokiest of cooking wood, beloved for its distinctive, sharp flavour relished in the bbq world.
The distillery was founded in 2010 by Brit, Colin Keegan. Colin went to Santa Fe for a job, and bought a house to live there. The house came with an Orchard, and he soon found himself with more apples than he knew what to do with. He decided to try distilling them to make a brandy, and after having success with this wanted to try his hand at making whiskey too. Being from the UK his first love was Scotch, and so he set out to make a single malt.
At almost 2,200 metres above sea level, Santa Fe Spirits is one of the highest distilleries in the US, if not the world.
30% of the malted barley is smoked with Mesquite which brings an aromatic, earthy balance.
NOSE
Fragrant. Stewed and spiced apples. Baking spices and caramel. There's a fragrant polished rosewood note too, followed by an almost incense-like sweet smoke.
TASTE
Big bold, fruity, spicy, and woody. A big pepper hit on the palate initially, followed by dark plums, toffee apples. ginger, cloves, and hints of liquorice.
ABOUT THE LABEL
Our initial release from Santa Fe had a baseball card label, so we had to created a brand new label for this distillery.
We’ve taken elements of Col Keegan’s architect background and, and built a whisky bottle out of Mesquite logs. That’s Col in the hi-vis eating an apple - a reference to how it all started for him.
