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In this whiskey review, I try out Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch from the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Does it hold it's own as a middle ground between Eagle Rare and Stagg Jr. for the price point? Find out in this video! Want more bourbon reviews? Subscribe and stay tuned for live streams every Tuesday and new whiskey reviews every Friday! #WhiskeyTube #Bourbon #WhiskeyTube #Bourbon #RyeWhiskey
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Hey guys and welcome to yet another bourbon review. Today we're going to take a look at Colonel E.H
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Taylor Small Batch. So I don't know about you guys but coming across this one at least in
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Southern California is super rare. I've seen it on the shelves before in one of these but it's
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usually really overpriced like this bottle is sometimes upwards of $70 but the actual suggested
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retail price on this is only like 40 bucks so it's definitely pushing it into like secondary
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territory on some of the pricing so you got to watch out for that but otherwise for 40 bucks I
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had to pick it up because I don't know when I'd ever see it again for that price. So since this is 100 proof I'm going to go ahead and pour it and let it start aerating a bit before I drink it
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So Buffalo Trace uses their high corn mash bill with E.H. Taylor and I think it's interesting that
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it's actually the same mash bill they use for their Eagle Rares and their regular Buffalo Trace
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and even their George T. Stag. So I think it's an interesting choice to go with the sweeter mash
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versus you know like the high rye like most distilleries do. So since this is
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100 proof it kind of puts it right in between the Eagle Rare and the Stagg
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Jr. So it's not the 90 proof of Eagle Rare or the 120 something proof of Stagg
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Jr. It's right there in the middle and for the price it kind of fits very well
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between those two So I want to see if it can actually live up to being kind of like a middle ground between those two And as you can tell I finally have a chance to rep my Buffalo Trace merch By the way if you new here and you like watching bourbon and whiskey videos
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So this is set for about 5 to 10 minutes now, and you can kind of see that the legs, I believe they're called, are kind of a little bit going up the glass
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Not quite as much as, like, some other whiskeys that are higher proof. So let's check out the nose and see how sweet it really is
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Yep, it's sweet. That's actually one of the sweetest smelling bourbons I've ever smelled
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It's almost like a candied apple and, like, a caramel apple together, if that makes sense
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You get the typical caramel notes you get on bourbon, but there's like a candy sweetness that goes along with it
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It's really nice. You do get a good bit of the alcohol on the nose, which I guess could be expected for a 100 proof
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although I've had some 100 proofs that don't have that. But it's really, really nice, and from what I remember, it's a lot nicer than the nose on like Buffalo Trace, standard Buffalo Trace
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Last time I had Eagle Rare I wasn really as into bourbon as I am now so I have to go back to that and see and compare but it really nice once you get past like the kind of like I call like hand sanitizer kind of smell Enough nosing it let taste it and see how it holds up
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Luckily that alcohol burn isn't as apparent on the taste. Wow, there's so much sweetness in this
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Like I've drank some of this before but I haven't really focused on like dialing in on what I get
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from it. It still has like a chewy caramel, like almost like a what is it like Werther's Originals
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or whatever they're called, like a chewy candy caramel taste. It definitely has a longer finish probably due to the higher proof
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compared to like your Buffalo Trace, but it's not like a creamy mouthfeel I get on some of the higher proof bourbons
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And Stagg Jr. is actually one of my favorite cast strength bourbons. And I have a feeling that the mouthfeel on that one
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is kind of what sets it apart from this. You do get the oak, but not as, you know
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strong as you would expect with other bourbons. Even Eagle Rare, since that's like a 10-year-old version of the same Nashville
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that has a lot more oak that kind of balances out the sweetness. where this kind of relies on the higher proof to balance it out
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It's really nice, and I guess what I'm kind of hung up on is the $40 price point
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Just to put it in perspective, I get Eagle Rare for around $30, and Stagg Junior for about $50 to $60 on a good day
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It's hard to find, too. But I tend to go more towards older bourbons
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so that's kind of what's making me question it, because as I reviewed on this channel Henry McKinnon does a single 10 bottle and bond bourbon and that one is only about to in my store but that you getting a 10 bourbon that also bottled and bond And the only reason I feel like this is slightly a bit too sweet for me
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is because it doesn't really have those strong other like oaky flavors to balance it out
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So my final verdict is E.H. Taylor, at least the small batch, I have not tried the single barrel or
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the barrel proof, would be really interesting. If I could ever get my hands on those, I would love to
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try them. I think I will stick with my Stagg Jr. for $10 more, but if you're not able to find Stagg
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Jr. and you see this on the shelf for like $40 or even $50 if you like have never seen Stagg Jr.
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I agree with you to try it. It's similar in a lot of ways, so if you try this and you like it
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you know you're gonna like the Stagg Jr.'s. You know you're gonna like the George T. Staggs, which I have yet to taste, but overall it's a really solid bourbon. I just can't necessarily
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recommend it over others for the price point. I recommend the Henry McKinnon Bottle and Bond
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which is a single barrel, especially if you can find it, you know, between $25 and $35
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Cheaper than this and oh so good. So thank you so much for watching my whiskey review
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