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- Bottled in bond: what the label means and which bottles qualify
Bottled in bond is a legal standard from 1897: one distillery, one season, at least four years in a bonded warehouse, exactly 100 proof. Here is what that guarantees, what it doesn't, and 15 bonded bourbons side by side.