Four Roses 6 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1970s

The Legend of the Four Roses is one of love and passion. The founder of the Four Roses distillery Paul Jones Jr. fell in love at first sight with a southern beauty and proposed to her, She in turn told him that if she were to say yes she would wear a corsage of roses to the upcoming grand ball. And so the legend says, she wore a corsage of four roses and in 1884 Paul Jones Jr. opened and trademarked the Four Roses distillery. This bottle of their 6 year old bourbon is nowhere near that old, although it is a rather handsome antique from the 1970s whose history shows in its old imperial measurement of ⅘ quarts, also known as a ‘fifth’.