A.H. Hirsch Reserve Bourbon 1974 17 Year Old
Chuck Cowdery said about the 17 Year Old, “It is one of the rarest A. H. Hirsch bottlings.”
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.
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.
