Four Aces

Back in the 1930's it was perfectly okay for a spirit of a particular type to be produced almost anywhere. This led to American Scotch, Canadian Bourbon, Mexican Cognac and probably a great many other odd combinations. It was only with the changing of international law in the late 1940's that we had to have our Cognac made only in France and our Scotch only from Scotland. Thus it was also true that Canada and Mexico could no longer make American-style bourbon.

The FOUR ACES or Cuatro Aces was a bourbon produced in Mexico in the late 1930's. There were several American and Canadian versions of Four Aces, but this is the only known one from Mexico. Notice how the neck label has the large "6". This was to make you think it was six years old, but that wasn't the case. It may have been "Aged in Wood" six months was probably more like it.