E.H. Taylor, Jr.
Bourbon in tribute to the father of the modern industry — the Colonel whose methods, and whose warehouses, are in use to this day.
The Colonel's uncompromising standard.
Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. is remembered as the father of the modern bourbon industry, and the title is earned. At the close of the Civil War he established the O.F.C. Distillery — known today as Buffalo Trace — and made it the most advanced of its age: copper fermenters, column stills, climate-controlled ageing warehouses, methods still in use a century and a half later.
His greatest fight was for honesty itself. Taylor championed the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, the law that first guaranteed a whiskey was what its label claimed — one distillery, one season, one hundred proof, under government bond. Much of the marque still answers to that standard, and its Single Barrel still ages in Warehouse C, which the Colonel built in 1885.
Every E.H. Taylor, Jr. whiskey is made at Buffalo Trace in recognition of his uncompromising dedication to great bourbon — a line of straight Kentucky whiskies that blends the Colonel's trailblazing techniques with modern craftsmanship, in bottles that faithfully recreate his originals.
A selection of the expressions within reach under this marque. Each is offered by allocation; explore any to see it in full.
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