That Boutique-y Whisky Company Santa Fe Spirits B1 5 Year Old

This is a Scotch-inspired Single Malt, smoked with local Mesquite, by an Englishman in New Mexico. 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. Once again we’ve bottled this at natural cask strength and and have filled just 284 bottles. The distillery was founded in 2010 by Brit, Colin Keegan, who was originally from Newcastle. Previously an architect, Colin went to Santa Fe to work on a job, and bought a house to live in whilst 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,