4 Roses Releases 2025 Restricted Version Small Batch

The season for particular version whiskey releases is heating up, and Kentucky-based 4 Roses simply introduced its annual Restricted Version (LE) Small Batch. Combining two distinct mashbills and yeast strains, the 2025 LE is a 109-proof, cask-strength mix of 13- and 19-year-old bourbons.

Tracing its origins to 1888, 4 Roses distills its bourbon in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, with a important warehouse campus about 40 miles away in Cox’s Creek. The distillery is known for combining two mashbills with 5 totally different yeast strains, leading to 10 totally different recipes, every recognized by a four-letter code. This provides the model a wide range of levers to drag when dialing in flavors and blends. In consequence, most of its merchandise characteristic elements from a number of totally different recipes.

Along with its perennial choices just like the Small Batch, Small Batch Choose, and Single Barrel whiskeys, 4 Roses has constructed a fame for its annual LE choices, which mix exceptionally well-aged bourbons throughout numerous recipes. 

The 2025 LE bottling — the 18th in an annual sequence — combines three 13-year-old bourbons and one 19-year-old bourbon.

• 13-year-old OBSV (excessive rye mashbill, V yeast), 38% of mix
• 13-year-old OBSK (excessive rye mashbill, Ok yeast), 17% of mix
• 13-year-old OESV (decrease rye mashbill, V yeast), 35% of mix
• 19-year-old OESV (decrease rye mashbill, V yeast), 10% of mix

The ultimate batch of this launch was non-chill filtered and bottled at barrel proof (109 proof, or 54.5% ABV).

“Yr after yr, we glance to create a singular expression that highlights one of the best of what our ten recipes can supply,” detailed 4 Roses Grasp Distiller Brent Elliott in an organization press launch. “When mixing this yr’s launch, I used to be drawn to the 13-year-old V batches that showcase pronounced delicate fruit and candy barrel tones. 

“Though these barrels can actually shine on their very own, the OBSK introduced in a complexity that I feel folks will actually get pleasure from. The addition of the 19-year-old OBSV additionally provides one other layer of depth and aged character that rounds out the mix fantastically.” 

Further model tasting notes spotlight candy apricot, caramel, black tea, and rye on the nostril. The palate begins with apricot and citrus, alongside crème brûlée and “vintage spiced oak.” 4 Roses describes the end for this yr’s LE as “very tender and lengthy.”

Beginning September 3, 4 Roses will launch roughly 16,854 bottles of its 2025 Restricted Version Small Batch on the producer’s instructed retail value (MSRP) of $249. Bottles can be distributed in restricted numbers at choose retailers in the US. 

Alternatively, followers can enter a bottle drawing by way of the distillery’s web site between August 19 and August 24. Winners of the drawing can be notified on August 29 and may have the chance to buy a bottle for the MSRP of $249 on the 4 Roses Distillery Customer Middle by the top of September. Guests to the distillery’s Bar 1888 in Lawrenceburg may also buy neat pours whereas provides final.