CallMeAl Woodfords Reserve- Great bourbon for those getting into the game. Smooth and Approachable.
I had a bud at our marina who was an Early Times drinker. To make a long story short he got some shots of Woodford Reserve from a salesman at the casino bar and bragged on how good it was. A few weeks later I was sitting at the bar at my local watering hole and the the bartender was opening up a new bottle of Woodford. She gave me the empty bottle, box, tassel and carefully pealed off the seal and gave me the cork. I went to the drug store and got a bottle of Woodford and compared the color to other bottles on the shelf. A cheap bottle of Yellowstone was a perfect match. I poured it into the Woodford bottle and carefully sealed it back up to look like a new bottle. We gave it to him for his retirement. He left it on his houseboat bar and break it out in the evening for a few drinks. He would sip on it, smile and say how good it was. He did that most of the summer. We snickered all summer. As he finally got down to the bottom we told him what we had done. Someone else also gave him a real bottom of Woodford that he hadn't opened yet. He opened it and compared and "said" could then the taste difference. 🤣