2015
- Santeria Rum wins a Gold Medal -
Santeria Rum is awarded a gold medal in the premium aged spirits category, by the RumXP's at the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival.
- Best New Spirits of 2015 -
Santeria is named one of the best new spirits of 2015 by Serious Eats.
- Santeria -
Rum Reimagined
Lost Spirits designs Santeria Rum for client Distillery Rational Spirits, using classical Jamaican "dunder" rum techniques, but introduces new bacteria never used in rum before. Lost Spirits helps Rationals for manny months then returns to its workshop distillery in Monterey County.
- GEAR PATROL GP100 -
Lost Spirits is one of only 6 distilled spirits products named to the GP100 top 100 products of 2015.
Lost Spirits wins global prize for Innovation
Lost Spirits wins the Global Spirits Master Title from leading industry publication Drinks Business, for its work proving that it is possible to mature spirits in a lab setting.
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TASTNG NOTES
ABOMINATION: CRYING OF THE PUMA
Nose:
Acrid smoke billows from the glass, softened only by a hint of something molasses and an indefinable fruit edge.
Taste:
Massively peated spirit, coping with an orgy of tannins...?
Finish:
The smoke returns to a more sooty mode with maple syrup, molasses and-once more- that unrecognizable half-hearted fruit note.
Overall balance and complexity:
An utterly baffling experience. This is for all intense purposes a Scotch whisky: at least in personality. If this was distilled in the US, then they have cracked it. The thing that I particularly couldn't work out was an unrecognizable fruit edge. And after tasting I dug out the bottle and read the small print (so small the detail was left off the heading by my researchers). That Riesling seasoned oak staves had been used. From the bizarre label and even brand name to the battle on your palate, this is a bewildering and non-sensical whisky-if it is whisky at all. And the term is never used. But wholly delicious if raw... and boasting an impact that blows the tastebuds' doors down... 93 POINTS (Brilliant)
54%. Non-coloured and non-chill-filtered.
– Acclaimed whisky critic, Jim Murray, The Whisky Bible
Rated "World Whisky of the Year"
by Wizards of Whisky
- Dominic Roskrow, Acclaimed whisky editor and author
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