Tag: Jim Rutledge

Roses on the River

If there is anything more Southern than cruising down the river on a steamboat while wearing a big hat and sipping a bourbon, I don’t know what it is. That was the scene yesterday during the Kentucky Derby Festival’s Great…

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Bourbon on the Belle

You are probably aware that the Kentucky Derby is run the first Saturday in May. But if you’re not here in Louisville, you may not realize that the Derby festivities stretch out for two weeks leading up to the Greatest…

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I said, ‘What is different about what I’m doing now from what I’ve been doing for years as a distiller?’ But the PR people said we were losing out because everyone else had one, so I finally gave in. Four…

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Four Roses 2011 Small Batch

Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch 2011 Mingling of four recipes, aged between 11 and 13 years Barrel strength; this sample, 111 proof Aroma: Floral notes, toasted oak, caramel, nutmeg Taste: Brown sugar, honey, chocolate, hints of spice and apricot…

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Bourbon Barrel Loft rollout

Four Roses first came to Louisville in 1884 when founder Paul Jones Jr. opened an office on Main Street’s Whiskey Row. One hundred twenty-seven years later, “it’s great to be back,” master distiller Jim Rutledge said yesterday during the official opening…

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