AH Hirsch Reserve 19 Year Old Bourbon [1974]

A.H. Hirsch Reserve 19 Year Old Bourbon 1974 
A legendary bottle of bourbon that has had a whole book written about itself: The Best Bourbon You’ll Never Taste by Charles K Cowdery.
This 19 year old was bottled in 1993 by Julian Van Winkle, and he has stated that around 720 were bottled. 
Distilled in Spring 1974, this bourbon is bottled from a single 400 barrel batch commissioned by Adolph Hirsch and distilled under contract at Michters distillery (then known as Pennco). Hirsch was a former Schenley executive who had briefly worked at Michter’s during his time there, and it is believed he commissioned the whisky as financial favour to the distillery, and actually had little plans for its use. So, it lay aging in the warehouses for much longer than generally expected for a bourbon at the time.