Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch Bottled in Bond

Delicious, very sweet bourbon. Everything looks very straight and without real corners. I would have liked some kind of contrast. At today's price not a purchase candidate.

Great example of a BIB bourbon…for $39. Not worth the price commanded by market manipulation, created by flippers and investors. Keep your hard earned cash.

I bought this bottle off Amazon for about £50 which is about right. If I paid double that I would be a bit disappointed. This is still a nice bourbon but no where near the single Barrel level.

Nice aroma but very weak taste

Classic, sweet bourbon profile on the nose, with icing sugar, maple syrup, fresh waffles, apricots and cinnamon. Needed water to tame the heat of the alcohol and release the softer notes. Sweet and spicy on the palate, with something slightly synthetic lingering (a bit like when I eat American boiled sweets; I'm not sure what it is though). The cinnamon note returns on the finish, which is a touch sweet and cloying. Overall, a bit too sweet and lacking depth and complexity to warrant a high score and strong recommendation, but if a simple, classic bourbon profile is what you're after, this does hit the spot.

Buffalo Trace with the intensity turned up a notch.

A great Bottled In Bond bourbon

Sweet, bitter and spicy.

As a result of the Buffalo Trace 45 degree and vertical, it feels like a reinforced version of the Buffalo Trace overall. NPF and even the color have become heavier and darker. However, the length of the finish had a sudden drop, so it didn't feel like it was longer than the buffalo. The bright raisin flavor was a very unique feature. Overall, the feeling of the scent and taste being strengthened from Wild Turkey 8 to Wild Turkey 12 and the feeling of being strengthened from Buffalo Trace to EH Taylor are very similar. Wild Turkey is strong and rough, but feels like it hits you hard, while Buffalo Trace is soft and gives off a heavy flavor. If the price came with Wild Türkiye 12, it would definitely be the bourbon I stock up on at home.

Nose: light vanilla, slightly salty, a little natural honey, smells very gentle Taste: sweet and sour plum? More powerful, rich vanilla and toasted oak burst together, greasy, rich bitterness (but very thin in the back section) Taste: Medium to light almond fat, pepper, chocolate The nutty aroma of this one seems to be more fatty and not sweet? Compared with Turkey 12, it is not sweet but fragrant.

A great bourbon with good body and lots of vanilla. Now that it is expensive, I have no intention of buying it.

Really nice classic 100 proof. Tasted neat. Flavorful, just right amount of heat.

Bright light copper pour.  Nose is sweet with confectioner's sugar, something like flour, waves of alcohol heat.  Mouth is big on toasted nuts (peanut?), flour, lots more confectioner's sugar.  Becomes somewhat cloying after time.  Too simple, too focused on these sweet, powdery flavors for me.

This Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch is not bad at all, really, even for me (have to say that bourbon is not my cup of tea). This is clearly not the most complex or original bourbon but it is still pleasant to drink. But, for an average price of 90 to 100 € most of people will probably prefer to buy something else. http://www.justanotherdram.com/en/tasting-notes/colonel-e-h-taylor-small-batch-2.html

A nice bourbon, for sure. Clean and well-made with plenty of attractive elements. While I tend to prefer bourbon with an acidity (cherry, fruit-toned), I appreciate this style for being light and its tempered use of oak. It reminds me of an old-fashioned bourbon with a lighter profile, despite the 50% ABV. A decent buy at stated MSRP; not worth a three-figure price tag.

Very tasty, fruity-sweet bourbon. The 50% alcohol strength fits perfectly. Dangerously tasty! :-)

Copper/Tawny. Restrained sweet and soft nose with honey, butterball, date, ginger and some tobacco and tea. Aromatic and complex, also a bit intoxicating. Oily and greasy mouthfeel. Very aromatic sweet palette with corn, caramel, leather, figs, ginger, cinnamon and black tea. Long sweet aftertaste that turns into spiciness (cold tea) without becoming too bitter. The nose is naturally sweet but does not have the typical synthetic sweetness that many bourbons do have. The palette is very pleasant with its sweet spices. In total a bit counterintuitive due to the aromatic sweetness.

Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch Bourbon is a very solid entry point to the Taylor range. The 100 proof turns out to be just the right strength to deliver bold and interesting flavours without the alcohol taking over too much. However, it very much depends on where you purchase this how satisfied you might be with your end product. I picked this up in the US for around $40 - but in the UK prices seem to vary from around £75 all the way up to £120. There’s import tax and then there’s utter greed. Either way, whilst this is a good quality small batch bourbon I’d only really recommend it at the dollar price if you can find it. https://www.thedramble.com/tastings/buffalo-trace/colonel-e.h.-taylor-jr.-small-batch-bourbon/

E.H. Taylor 1st and only Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon, 50%. Strong amber colour. Aroma of rum 'n' raisin fudge, green apple, green raisin too, banoffee pie, some highlighter pen, some toasted oak. Decent nose. Taste is less bold up-front than the Single Barrel - doesn't blow your socks off like that one did for me, but instead it grows into something very similar. Some plasticky notes initially, like the sort you get from over-oaked wine, then the dominant vibe settles somewhere between vanilla and a dried trail mix sort of fruit, leading to some more of the banoffee pie from the nose ... very easy with no saltiness, fire or roughness. Clove and a little cinnamon on the linger - more clove. Just rich intense flavour. Very, very similar to the first bottling of EHT Single Barrel I tried, and only very slightly inferior in my opinion. This is very nice, although bourbon pricing is getting a little silly in the UK, as this is generally available at around the £100 mark. I would happily pay up to £80 for bottles in the EH Taylor range but bourbon prices just seem to go up and up (and quality seems stagnant or even to decrease). However, this one is certainly a premium product. A stand-out bourbon. 3.775/90

Aroma : caramel, varnish, honey (Simple and typical for bourbons) Taste on arrival : quite a bit of honey in addition to caramel and baked apples Taste in development : ripe glazed fruits Finish : short

I sipped this with some Woodford Reserve Double Oak and standard Blantons for comparison, and the differences stand out for both. I think I do still like the standard Blanton’s more than this, but I may have over-scored it by a little. The thing that struck me about the EH Taylor, is that nothing really jumps out. It comes across as meticulously harmonious leading to a somewhat mellow experience. The alcohol is very well integrated and the 50% ABV is even gentler than the Blantons (46.5%). The vanilla seemed to be dialed back too, which I quite liked, but there were less of the fruity cherry drops I enjoy. It found it a bit muted overall, except for the warming chilies in the tail, which were pitch perfect in context with the rest of the profile. Very skillfully arranged, but possibly over-curated for me. In tweaking all of the characteristics into such a fine balance, I think I’m missing a little spark or edge. I get the feeling that this is pretty much the point of the EHT small batch as a crowd pleaser, and in that, they have been inarguably successful. It’s so incredibly easy to drink, it was difficult to focus on it while writing my notes and it just seemed to evaporate from the glass. I can see why this does so well.

Another great bourbon sample courtesy of karloff. Almost a high ABV cherry liqueur.

Aroma: sweet, spicy aroma, distinct woody profile, caramel, vanilla, apple, peach Taste: same in taste, although the dominant element is wood, spices, and then a sweet profile (but it must be said that the alcohol is pleasantly integrated)

Honestly a somewhat overhyped bourbon. The flavor is not phenomenally interesting, although very complex and it's not as smooth as you would expect a whiskey with mild notes to be. It's really sweet, but also hits you with some spice and burn immediately, than transitioning into the flavors of melon, apple, wheat, baked pie crust, hay, pear. A lot of interesting flavors is somewhat overpowered for me by the sweetness. Really not my thing, but bourbon drinkers might appreciate.

This is a good bourbon. The price is high, but well worth it.

Delicious. Sublime heat, albeit smooth. Vanilla edge

Nose: Acetone, white peach Taste: Peach, vanilla Finish: Oak, rubber / Spicy

Blind sample 6 trial Olympics 2022

Tasted blind. Really complex and subtle, great stuff! A lot of rancio tones that are well integrated in the flavour profile and the matching ABV

1903) Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr, Small Batch, Bottled In Bond, Straight Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey, Buffalo Trace Distillery

Mash Bill: Buffalo Trace Recipe #1 (≤ 10% rye) On the nose, a lovely, rather classic bourbon whiskey with pronounced sweetness. On the palate, it's also exceptionally sweet and wonderfully spicy with a slightly floral, almost fruity start. I detect vibrant notes of apple and lemon peel, sweet honey, and fresh herbs. The intense sweetness of corn and caramel is delightful and underscores not only the sweet but also the spicy notes, including roasted nuts and wood, as well as cinnamon and pepper. Caramel again dominates the finish. A truly excellent whiskey that brings me immense pleasure in the glass. The alcohol is very well integrated, and the balance of floral, fruity, and spicy notes, along with the intense sweetness, offers a wealth of discoveries.

A wonderful, smooth, yet powerful small batch bourbon.   Full flavored.   Very approachable, and lively whiskey.  Cheers!

Sometimes I wonder, how does Buffalo Trace manage to get such varied results out of same distillate. I mean this same distillate goes into two or more of their other expressions and yet you can tell all of them distinctly apart. That tells me the sheer genius at work here

Nose: it starts with a really fat nose, nice oily, first beats a lot of apple flavor from the glass, followed by a good portion of caramel with some sea salt, the corn comes through well, he has a great spicy flavor of cinnamon, cloves and even discreet Kardamon, in the background swinging even a little smoke of the strong burned barrels, the sweetness drifts again and again in the direction of Rumrosinen from, even some tobacco box can be found Taste: good onset, oily, you can roll well over the tongue, clear sweetness to corn and caramel, then beat the spices again fully, plus a decent portion of oak Finish: The finish is long, spicy wood, licorice, caramel, some salt are noticeable, behind some beeswax, it is dry, but not bitter Water: No, the alcohol is actually perfectly integrated. Nevertheless, the attempt: Well, it goes quite well with water, the fruity apple and the caramel are stronger, while the spicy side moves slightly more into the background, some shoe polish shows, the liquorice from the finish is now also in the Nose. Without water he likes me better. Conclusion: This is really a great bourbon. OK, who can not do anything with the basic properties of Boubon Whiskey, should also stay away from here. He would like to recommend everyone else. For me personally, my best ever Bourbon, even if he was my dearest with just under 100 EUR - but the money is well laid out in my view, which is a really good drink - 88 points