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Colonel E.H Taylor Barrel Proof Uncut Whiskey

750 ML

$199.99 $269.99

Colonel E.H Taylor Barrel Proof Uncut Whiskey

$199.99 $269.99

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Colonel E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Uncut is one of the most revered releases from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, delivering bourbon exactly as it comes from the barrel—untouched, undiluted, and uncut. This highly sought-after expression is aged in historic warehouses originally built by Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr., the pioneer behind many of modern bourbon’s standards. Bottled at full barrel proof and non-chill filtered, it showcases intense flavor, rich texture, and deep complexity. Bold yet balanced, this release is a favorite among collectors and serious bourbon enthusiasts who appreciate raw, uncompromising character.

• Powerful aromas of caramelized sugar, toasted oak, dark fruit, and warm baking spices.

• The palate is rich and intense with layers of toffee, cinnamon, vanilla bean, leather, and molasses.

• Long, warming finish with deep oak, cocoa, and lingering spice.

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Recognition & Prestige

The Father of Modern Bourbon. The Standard Every Other Bottle Is Measured Against.

Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr. — the man who wrote the rules that still govern bourbon today

There are bourbons that win awards, and then there is Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. — the man who determined what an award-worthy bourbon could even be. His Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 became the first consumer protection law in American history, establishing the legal framework that governs straight bourbon to this day. The expressions that carry his name are not merely produced to that standard — they are a living monument to the man who made the standard inescapable. Every gold medal won by a Bottled-in-Bond bourbon anywhere in the world traces its legitimacy, in part, back to the Colonel.

Collectors seek it. Connoisseurs keep it. Critics reach for it when they want to describe what serious Kentucky bourbon is supposed to taste like. The Colonel E.H. Taylor collection has earned consistent recognition from the world's most respected bourbon authorities — not just for its flavour, but for what it represents: the purest, most uncompromising expression of what straight bourbon was always meant to be, made by the man who fought a government to protect it.

Other bourbons are made to meet the standard. This one is named after the man who set it.

Origin & History

Est. 1869 · Leestown, Kentucky

The Man Who Gave Bourbon Its Soul.

How one visionary Colonel rewrote the rules of American whiskey — and why his name still commands the room
In 1869, a banker-turned-distiller named Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. purchased a small distillery in Leestown, Kentucky, christened it the O.F.C. Distillery, and set about doing something the bourbon industry had never seen — making whiskey the right way, completely and without compromise. He introduced copper fermentation tanks, column stills, a modernised sour mash technique and the first steam-heating system ever used in barrel warehouses. Where others cut corners, Taylor built infrastructure. Where others chased volume, Taylor chased perfection.

His most lasting contribution came not from the still, but from the fight he picked with an entire industry. Bourbon in the late 1800s was rife with impostors — cheap, adulterated spirits passed off as the genuine article. Taylor refused to accept it. He lobbied, argued and campaigned until Congress passed the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 — the first consumer protection law in American history — which legally defined straight bourbon for the first time and made it a federal offence to fake it. Every Colonel E.H. Taylor expression is still produced to that exact standard today. The Colonel's law. The Colonel's bourbon. Nothing has changed because nothing needed to.

Craft & Philosophy

Traditions revived. Standards unbroken.

Crafted in Near-1880s Fashion. For People Who Know the Difference.

The Distiller's Council — where forgotten methods meet living mastery

In 1996, a gathering of bourbon pioneers and retired craftsmen — men who had devoted their careers to the art of Kentucky distilling — came together with a single purpose: to revive Colonel Taylor's original methods from the ground up. They called themselves the Distiller's Council, and working directly from Taylor's own techniques, they brought back his sour mash process exactly as he had practised it, producing bourbon in near-1880s fashion — the way the Colonel himself would have recognised, approved and raised a glass to.

That same devotion defines every bottle released under his name today. Produced to the strict federal requirements of the Bottled-in-Bond Act — 100 proof, aged a minimum of four years, distilled in a single season at a single distillery under government supervision — the Colonel E.H. Taylor Distiller's Council expression is held to a legal standard that the Colonel himself wrote into law. No shortcuts are taken because the law he authored makes shortcuts impossible. That is not a marketing claim. It is a federal guarantee, backed by over a century of unbroken precedent.

A Gift Worth Giving

For every occasion that demands the extraordinary

Some Bottles Impress. This One Leaves a Legacy.

The bourbon that says you understand what real quality looks like

There is a particular kind of person who receives a bottle of Colonel E.H. Taylor and immediately understands what they are holding — someone who knows their bourbon, respects its history and recognises that they are looking at one of the most storied names in American whiskey. And there is another kind of person: the one who receives it, reads the label, and spends the next hour discovering the story of a 19th-century Colonel who rewrote the law of an entire industry. Both reactions are exactly right. Both make for a gift that is remembered long after the occasion that prompted it.

Presented in a bottle whose design faithfully recreates the Colonel's original label from over a century ago — every detail considered, nothing changed without reason — it arrives as a complete statement before it is even opened. Whether it marks a promotion, a retirement, a milestone or simply a moment that deserves more than the ordinary, Colonel E.H. Taylor is the gift that carries the weight of history in one hand and the promise of an extraordinary pour in the other. You are not giving a bottle of bourbon. You are giving the name that made bourbon worth giving.