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Bourbons: avg 7.5/10 · median 7.9/10 · range 1–10 · 514 rated
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E.H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch
Colonel E.H. TaylorSpiritsBourbon
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Sources split on this one. Whiskybase puts it in the top 37.3% of bourbon, The Bourbon Culture in the bottom 22.8%. Breaking Bourbon gives it 3/5, right in line with the typical bourbon (357 rated). The Bourbon Culture gives it 6.6/10, vs. 7.8/10 for the typical bourbon (473 rated). Whiskybase gives it 85.2, vs. 84.3 for the typical bourbon (51 rated).
A Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky straight bourbon produced at Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, honoring Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr., a pioneering 19th-century distiller who championed the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897. Made from Buffalo Trace's Mash Bill #1 and aged in the historic Warehouse C built by Taylor himself, this small batch expression is bottled at 100 proof (50% ABV) and serves as the entry point into the Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. lineup.
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