Tag: Jim Rutledge

“It can really have a nice nose – a great aroma – and a nice mouthfeel, but if it doesn’t finish right, that overrules the others. You don’t want something to have a kick or a bite.” Four Roses Master…

Four Roses Limited Edition 2013 Small Batch Blend of three recipes, one aged 18 years; the other two, 13 years. 110 proof; $90/750ml The second limited-edition bourbon to mark Four Roses’ yearlong celebration of its 125 years in distilling is this…

Forty years later, it still gives you chills. Watching video of Secretariat blazing down the home stretch in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, winning the third leg of the Triple Crown by 31 lengths, a crowd gathered at the Kentucky Derby Museum earlier this…

So, judging a julep recipe contest is harder than I thought it would be. I know, I know: I can feel the eyerolls from here. Tough job, Bourbon Babe! But hey, you taste 10 different – VERY different, in some…

“If you like bourbon, this will be fun,” Four Roses master distiller Jim Rutledge told Secretariat owner Penny Chenery as he escorted her into the brand’s bottling facility in Cox’s Creek, Ky., where she was to select two single-barrel bourbons…

It has been 40 years since Secretariat swept the Triple Crown, becoming the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby in under 2 minutes (1:59 2/5, still the record), making a last-to-first finish in the Preakness and annihilating the rest of…

Four Roses Master Distiller Jim Rutledge has some of the best penmanship in the bourbon business. I drew this conclusion after watching him sign bottle after bottle at the Bourbon Women Association’s holiday shopping event at the Springhurst Liquor Barn…

Four Roses Distillery had quite a set-up at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival Gala on Saturday night in Bardstown. Here, I’m enjoying a glass of Four Roses Single Barrel while standing next to a sculpture that captured the brand’s iconic blooms in…

As promised, here are some photos from the Sept. 10 grand opening of the new Visitors Center at Four Roses Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Above, master distiller Jim Rutledge and Kentucky Department of Tourism Commissioner Michael Mangeot cut the ribbon – or…

Four Roses 2012 Limited Edition Small Batch Mingling of four recipes, aged 11 to 17 years Barrel strength; this sample, 115 proof Aroma: Vanilla, nutmeg, a creamy caramel Taste: Very tingly on the front, with hot white pepper; settles right…