Four Roses Black Label

Four Roses - Small Batch

Four Roses, currently owned by the Japanese Kirin, was actually a blend until 2002. It was the Japanese owners that decided to produce and promote it again as a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. This Four Roses Small Batch was bottled in 2014. It is composed of four different bourbons produced in-house. The nose is round and sweet, but very rich....

Score 83/100

Four Roses Private Edition OBSQ

Late in 2014 I was lucky enough to find my first Four roses private edition. The bottle had the recipe and age removed, but four roses is a brand I trust to consistently produce great bourbon. The nearly empty bottle I am reviewing is proof of that. The private editions are all single barrel, containing one of the ten four roses recipes, and aged...

Score 94/100

Four Roses Blended (43%) Pre-1978

I thought about titling this review, "Fear and Trembling" and apologizing to Soren Kirkegaard. Going back a couple of decades, Four Roses has a horrible horrible reputation among bourbon lovers. We're talking way before the Kirin ownership of the brand. This review goes way back. The reviewed sample was bottled no later than 1977, and...

Score 67/100

Four Roses Single Barrel

It's been a while since I put a good old fashioned bourbon on the tasting block. Five months to be exact. No real reason other than getting swept up in my single malt purchases and ignoring this spirit from the West. For some reason I always get grief from my whisky club about my love for American whisky. Not that they're snobs or anything. It's...

Score 94/100