I’m by no means a pro or sophisticated bourbon drinker, I prefer Makers Mark, myself, but my wife and I completed the bourbon trail on our honeymoon, and we sampled from 7 distilleries and some had two or 3 different grades, and of them all our two favorites were the Four Roses Small Batch, followed by the Elijah Craig 18year Old Single Barrel. The only problem with the Four Roses is that it is currently only available in Kentucky, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Colorado, California and Tennessee; however, they are phasing in about three states a year. The Elijah Craig is available almost every where, and both run about $45 per bottle, at least at the distillery the Four Roses was $45, and in my local liquor store the Elijah Craig was $48. Then, if you can’t get either of those, or try them and want others again I prefer Makers Mark, but you really can’t go wrong, at least with the 80 to 90 proof bourbons, the over 90 proof ones may not be exactly smooth. Of those that we tried the only one that to me was unpalatable was the Baker’s 107proof from the Jim Beam distilleries, however, the Booker’s 120-127proof was much better that the Baker’s.