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Santa Fe Spirits
Colkegan Mesquite Smoked Single Malt American Straight Whiskey

Category: American Straight Malt Whiskey

Date Tasted: 7/7/2022

Country: USA

Alcohol: 46%

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94 Points

Gold Medal

Exceptional

$49

2022 Best American Straight Malt Whiskey

Santa Fe Spirits
Colkegan Mesquite Smoked Single Malt American Straight Whiskey

Category: American Straight Malt Whiskey

Date Tasted: 7/7/2022

Country: USA

Alcohol: 46%

Gold color. Aromas and flavors of smoked peaches, toasted bread, and mesquite, walnut paste, tobacco, ginger candies, and mulled red wine steaming over wood embers with a satiny, dry medium-to-full body and a warming, complex, medium-length finish that shows shades of cinnamon, dates, clove, and fig jam, cedar box and sweet tobacco, smoked peaches, and cocoa nibs. A youthful yet layered and flavorful Whiskey that illustrates how the world is catching up on Celtic Single Malts.

Tasting Info

	Style:	Candied Complex Fruity
	Aroma:	smoked peaches, toasted bread, and mesquite, walnut paste, tobacco, ginger candies, and mulled red wine steaming over wood embers
	Flavor:	Same as aromas with shades of cinnamon, dates, clove, and fig jam, cedar box and sweet tobacco, smoked peaches, and cocoa nibs
	Smoothness:	Warming
	Enjoy:	in cocktails, neat, on the rocks and with cigars
	Cocktails:	Sazerac, Old Fashioned, Manhattan
	Bottom Line:	A youthful yet layered and flavorful Whiskey that illustrates how the world is catching up on Celtic Single Malts.

The Producer

Santa Fe Spirits

7505 Mallard Way, Unit I

Santa Fe, NM 87507

USA

1 505-467-8892

www.santafespirits.com

Their Portfolio

87 •	Santa Fe Spirits Wheeler’s Western Dry Gin 40% (USA) $30.00.
94 •	Santa Fe Spirits Colkegan Mesquite Smoked Single Malt American Straight Whiskey 46% (USA) $49.00.

American Straight Malt Whiskey

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Serve in a Glencairn Ganadian Whisky Glass

About

American Straight Malt Whiskey

An American straight malt whiskey is a domestic malt whiskey (with at least 51%malt) that has been aged for two years or more before bottling. This category encompasses many examples, from very good versions made by large distillers to more limited production bourbons that have been aged for twelve years or more; the former examples are meant for cocktails, while the more expensive whiskeys - some costing as much as $200 a bottle - should be reserved for after dinner sipping, given their elegant and complex nature.