Few bourbons wear the bottled-in-bond stamp as visibly as Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch. Bottled-in-bond one distillery, one season, at least four years in wood, exactly 100 proof is the 1897 standard Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr. fought to create, and this small batch tribute ages in the century-old Frankfort warehouses he built, now home to Buffalo Trace. The pour runs to caramel corn and butterscotch with a ribbon of licorice, closing soft before subtle pepper and tobacco arrive late. Made from the distillery’s low-rye Mash Bill #1, it stays an allocation staple that moves quickly when it hits shelves. Pour it neat for anyone who wants to taste why the bond act mattered.