The nose is rich starting with a light smoke and butterscotch that fades to fruits of pear tart, apple pie filling, and maraschino cherries that transitions to smoked brisket then light floral notes, vanilla pudding that transitions to spices of cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, ginger, and glowing embers of mesquite wood with high ethanol burn. The taste is a rich mouthfeel starting with honeycomb and moderate smoke along with Carolina BBQ sauced baby back ribs that fades to McDonalds baked apple pie, orange peel and maraschino cherries followed by a high drying spice that fades to spicy dark chocolate, smoked paprika, ginger, leather and ashy tannic mesquite wood with high ethanol burn. The finish is long with mesquite smoked brisket, honeycomb, spicy dark chocolate, caramel apples, orange peel, canned peaches, leather and drying ashy oak. Lost Lantern seems to go for those big bold flavored single casks and this is no exception that brings a combination of barbecue, citrus and spices on the nose that carries over to the taste with more meaty and smoky flavors than the nose but veers towards a high drying spice mid-palate that then reveals some spicy chocolate notes along with ashy mesquite oak that finishes with some nice barbecue and citrus but again that overabundance of tannic oak remains throws off the finish. A huge thanks to @ctbeck11 for the generous sample for me to taste.