E.H. Taylor, Jr. Single Barrel Bourbon

Cinnamon and spice on the nose. Heat on the finish.

Great pour very smooth, single barrel so will slightly vary. Classi bourbon notes

The silver lining to the cloud overhanging the bourbon industry is that many previously hard-to-find whiskies are (slowly) becoming more available. I've seen this with Elijah Craig 18 year (which I reviewed a short while ago), with E.H. Taylor Single Barrel, and other whiskies. Economically speaking, a product or service is worth what the market will bear--and anyone who ******* or gripes about the price is just that--a ******* or griper. I get it: I've been a ******* and a griper. I've lamented the rise in prices and the scarcity of whiskies that I used to be able to find, including this one. I recently found this bottle of E.H Taylor Single Barrel (I've had several over the years, but had run out). And when I saw it, I grabbed it. It wasn't at secondary pricing--but it wasn't retail. Something in between. Honestly, I don't remember the exact price. I have a lot of whiskey--but I'm not a "collector." Back in the day, I traded a lot of of it. I bought it not to trade, but to drink, because I liked it, and I like to have inventory of what I actually like. It just so happened that a lot of my whiskey's value rose significantly, and I parlayed that into other bottles that I was unable to find elsewhere at the time. As a result, I was able to try other whiskies that had become scarce, whether they were actually good or not. So back to this whiskey--bourbon, actually. E.H. Taylor Single Barrel is objectively good, irrespective of the price. Goodness, beauty, sensual satisfaction, whatever it is--those things are not a function of price. That's what value is: value is perceived "goodness" relative to price. But I digress. I love this bourbon. There's so much going on: baked apples, chocolate covered cherries, root beer, caramel, wax candy, a little licorice. Lots of vanilla on the finish. E.H. Taylor Single Barrel is good, and the 100 proof adds a nice Kentucky Hug--this is bourbon, after all. Would I buy it again? Yes, at the right price--at the right price I'd like cases of it. 4.5 on the Distiller scale.