Release news: Lot 26 of St. George American Single Malt Whiskey is coming soon! Be among the first to taste it and pre-order bottles now.
St. George Single Malt Whiskey is an American original: distilled, aged, and blended out of love for what a handcrafted single malt can be.
If you’ve tried any other St. George distillate, you owe it to yourself to taste the spirit that compelled master distiller Lance Winters to start distilling in the first place in the 1990s and earned him his place in the Whisky Magazine Hall of Fame.
Our Lot series single malt is a limited annual release. We laid down our first barrels of single malt in 1997, released Lot 1 of St. George Single Malt Whiskey in 2000, and have shared a new Lot in the series every year since as our whiskey program has grown and evolved.
RELEASE NEWS: Lot 26 will be available to taste and purchase at the distillery beginning on Wednesday, September 2. Pre-orders are available now at the link below for both pickup at the distillery and delivery within California.
Bottles will also begin hitting the shelves of California bottle shops the first week of September, as well as rolling out in other states throughout the fall season.
ABV: 43%
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Lance joined the distillery in 1996 with a bottle of homemade whiskey as his resume and the express purpose of making a truly original single malt here at St. George Spirits. Though the category of American single malt whiskey would not reach critical mass and receive official recognition for another quarter-century, he had a vision and a dream that was far ahead of its time.
We laid down our first barrels of single malt in 1997, released Lot 1 of St. George Single Malt Whiskey in 2000, and have shared a new Lot in the series every year since then as our whiskey program has grown and evolved.
Lance’s brewing background prior to joining St. George strongly informed our whiskey’s mash bill—using various roast levels of two-row barley to elicit rich aromas of toasted nuts and cocoa, and smoking a portion of unroasted barley over beech and alder wood to add base notes and additional complexity.
The resulting whiskey is expressive and inviting right off the still, but a variety of cooperage types contribute an even greater depth of flavor—creating a layered single malt with a signature all its own.
For our Lot 26 release, we selected and blended 25 diverse casks from our whiskey library, including used American oak barrels that previously held bourbon, shaved and re-toasted French oak barrels, casks that previously held apple brandy, and California Sauternes-style wine casks.
The oldest single cask in the Lot 26 blend spent 11.5 years in oak; originally distilled in 2000, this whiskey rested in stainless steel since 2012. The youngest cask is 5 years old, with the blend having an overall approximate age of 6.5 years.
St. George American Single Malt Whiskey is an elegant expression of everything we love about whiskey.
On the nose, Lot 26 expresses cocoa, brown butter, marzipan, ripe plum, campfire smoke, saline. On the palate: rich on the palate, with notes of marmalade, buttery pastry, tahini, dark chocolate, warm cedar.
Sip neat to fully experience all the nuances and depth of flavor, or add nothing more than a single large ice cube. This is as good as whiskey gets.
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