Spirits · Frankfort, Kentucky

Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr.

Bottled-in-bond bourbons from Buffalo Trace honoring a founding father of the industry.

Based in: Frankfort, Kentucky

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Their story

Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr. started as a banker financing distilleries and became one of Kentucky's most influential distillers. In 1869 he bought the Leestown Distillery in Frankfort and renamed it O.F.C., for Old Fire Copper. After financial trouble, fire and rebuilding, that site grew into what is now Buffalo Trace.

Taylor later built the castle-like Old Taylor distillery and was a leading force behind the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, which set standards to protect whiskey from adulteration. Buffalo Trace acquired the Old Taylor label in 2006 and went on to create the Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. line of limited bourbons in his name.

How it's made

The whiskeys are distilled and aged at Buffalo Trace in Frankfort, Kentucky. Most releases follow the bottled-in-bond rules Taylor fought for, meaning the product of one distilling season, aged at least four years in a bonded warehouse and bottled at 100 proof, with barrel proof and other special editions released from time to time.

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Bottled-In-Bond Straight Rye (750ML)

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Straight Rye Whiskey has experienced a strong resurgence in the American whiskey landscape over the last decade, yet Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. was making this style of Kentucky rye whiskey more than 100 years ago. This small batch, Bottled-in-Bond 100 proof straight rye whiskey pays tribute to the former Buffalo Trace Distillery owner with a unique rye whiskey reminiscent of days long past.An altogether different recipe and profile than...

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