Four Roses 6 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1970s (75cl, 43%)

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’.