Baking spices | Rye spice | Dense brown sugar | Herbal undertone | Inviting

Spice up front | Nutmeg | Baking spices | Honey | Caramel | Brown sugar | Pie crust | Earthy undertone with an herbal accent | Balanced and full-flavored

Nutmeg | Cinnamon | Brown sugar | Leather | Hint of tobacco | Lingering sweet-spicy mix

Lost Lantern’s Summer 2025 Collection “celebrates the rise of estate distilleries.” These types of distilleries grow all of their own grain either onsite or within a short distance to their distilling facilities. This helps give rise to the “grain to glass” movement within the whiskey industry and, like wine, seeks to highlight terroir, or a "sense of place" that the whiskey embodies.    

Farmers’ Fields Rye is a blend of straight ryes from the four distilleries also featured as single barrel ryes within Lost Lantern’s Summer 2025 Estate Distillery Collection. The distillery ryes in the blend come from a range of geographical locations throughout the United States, ranging from the far Southwest with Corbin Cash (Atwater, CA) and Frey Ranch (Fallon, NV), to the extreme north with Far North (Hallock, MN), and Whiskey Acres (DeKalb, IL), hailing from the Midwest.

There is a lot of rye in Farmers’ Fields Rye’s mashbill, with two of the four components being 100% rye, but it doesn’t drink at all like a more common high rye whiskey from MGP or WhistlePig. Instead, the whiskey’s grounded sweetness tempers the spice, which is also rich and dynamic with baking spices, nutmeg, rye, and cinnamon. There’s dense brown sugar on the nose, along with an herbal undertone that seems to come in place of what could have otherwise been more intense spice notes. In addition to the spice notes, honey, caramel, pie crust, and more brown sugar on the palate are propped up by an earthy undertone that has a noticeably herbal accent. Given the range of flavors, it remains balanced and full-flavored. The finish adds savory notes of leather and a hint of tobacco, and is capped off by a lingering sweet-spicy mix.

There are fewer ryes than bourbons in the marketplace, and as a result, fewer ryes that really stand out as remarkable whiskeys. Farmers’ Fields Rye nails a high proof, rich rye flavor profile that balances distinctiveness with drinkability, and sweetness with spice. The blend is a good example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, as it’s being better than the collective individual distillery offerings that are included in it. Those who like a unique, full-flavored, high proof rye with an earthy undertone should seek out this release.

Lost Lantern Summer 2025 Estate-Distillery Collection: Farmers’ Fields Rye is a small blend totaling 538 bottles.