Buffalo Trace bottled Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. 18 Year Marriage exactly once a 2020 bottled-in-bond bourbon marrying three mash bills, two rye recipes and one wheated, all barreled in 2002 and aged a full 18 years. Bottled-in-bond means one distillery, one season, 100 proof rare discipline for bourbon this old, which usually leans on dilution to tame the oak. Vanilla butter cake rises from the glass, caramel and cinnamon carry the palate, and the finish turns to toasted oak with a hint of spearmint. The release has not returned since. This is an allocation trophy in the truest sense; open it for the people who will understand what they are tasting.