Colonel E. H. Taylor Small Batch
Colonel E. H. Taylor Small Batch COST: $45 for 750 mL bottle AGE: NAS (but minimum 4 yrs due to BiB) MASH BILL: Buffalo Trace Mashbill #1 (low rye, suspected ≤10% rye) PROOF: 100 This really isn’t a bottle that needs an introduction. Let’s begin! Reviewed neat in a Glencairn. APPEARANCE: Burnished copper (1.3), oily looking, with a few thin, fast legs at first and then the a ring of very slow teardrop beads begin to form. NOSE: A mixture of orange, vanilla, and perfumed saffron dominate. They are accompanied by lighter notes of Granny Smith apples, medicinal cherry, and a mix of baking spices and toasted malt. PALATE: The mouthfeel is oily, but it is on the thinner side. Ample vanilla, cherry slices candy, a touch of orange extract, honey, and maduro tobacco. There is a little oak here, but it’s really on the backend and leading into the finish. FINISH: Cherry cola soaked charred barrel stave. There’s a touch of orange and honey that lighten the heavier side of the aforemention
