Some days just call for a really good freakin' bourbon. One of the first summer nights on my patio oasis makes it worth its amber glory. Colonel EH Taylor Small Batch Bottled In Bond has a comforting vanilla oak-y nose that I'd happily light as a scented candle. A sip brings a 1-2 punch of spicy heat with notes of corn/leather that gracefully melts like boozy ice cream cone. Drinking with a large ice cube smooths out the heat, but keeps an umami-like tanginess that makes this a fabulous sipper. 8.75/10