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Four Roses Yellow Label Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
March 1, 2018 (edited March 2, 2018)
Four Roses' main line has three expressions, and, unsurprisingly, the quality marches side by side with the price. Four Roses Small Batch is a good value for its $30 price tag, although not my favorite in that range, and Four Roses Single Barrel is close to the best at $40-45. Four Roses Yellow Label, however, is those bourbons' sub-$20, meant for mixed drinks little brother. The youth of this bourbon shines through in more raw grain notes and more rye taste, without a corresponding balance with the deeper, richer, dense fruit or caramel and syrup flavors that come to dominate the more expensive, better-aged Four Roses. I drank this neat just to try it, but wouldn't have it again. Its rye-heavy and relatively less sweet profile may be well-suited to cocktails where it's blended with sweeter ingredients, such as an Old Fashioned or a Manhattan (which is meant to have rye anyways).
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