Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch Bourbon

Hot. I notice a prominent rye note closer towards the finish. caramel, slight vanilla, but mostly heavier oak and hay, cereal, heavy char and a familiar rye spice finish. I highly enjoyed this whiskey and was similar in some aspects to calumet 15 in some aspects. Blows buffalo and weller green out of the water

Love the burn and history!

Really good flavor and finish. Just a little too spicey for me to call it perfect.

Cant believe i found it. Especially in a PA bar. Decent.

This bottle was a gift, and I don't know what the individual who gave it to me paid, but the Total Wine site lists it at $45.99. All I could learn about the mash bill is it's Buffalo Trace's Mash Bill #1 - for some reason which I've never been able to fathom, they don't want anyone to know what their mash bills are, even though no one, with that information, could ever replicate their whisky, and releasing that information has never hurt other distillers. It's 100 proof, of course, since it's bottled in bond, and there's no age statement. NOSE: On the nose I got bananas, vanilla, caramel, butter, butterscotch, creamed corn, and niblets. MOUTHFEEL: Soft. TASTE: Honey, oak, cinnamon, and brown sugar. FINISH: Medium, with oak, honey, and a brief citrus note. SUMMARY: Just looking at the notes I got from this whisky you'd think it's simple, but I don't believe it is. There's more to the whisky than the individual notes I got. I think that over time I'll be able to get more out of the juice than I've gotten for this review, but of course that'll require going on through the bottle. At any rate, it is good whisky even if I'm having trouble sorting it out, and I think the price for it is fair. RATING: My hick rating system puts this one at #6, counting from the bottom and going all the way up to 8 - I call it Fine whisky. This equates to 3.75 stars, 75/100, or 7.5/10.