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Colonel E.H. Taylor Warehouse C Tornado Surviving

Lot: 331631

Colonel E.H. Taylor Warehouse C Tornado Surviving

Winning Bid: £6,150
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 26 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Buffalo Trace
Age: 
see lot description
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Kentucky, USA
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
100 US Proof / 50%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Colonel E.H. Taylor Warehouse C Tornado Surviving

Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr is considered one of the true bourbon pioneers. Born in 1830, he was orphaned at the age of five and was adopted by his uncle, Edmund Haynes Taylor Snr, who rechristened him as his junior. E.H. Taylor Jr is also referred to as Colonel Taylor due to his holding of the honourary title of Kentucky Colonel, something he shares with a number of state's distinguished sons, most notably a certain fried chicken vendor. Throughout his career, Taylor set up and owned seven different distilleries, and his lobbying for the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897 has seen him considered as "the father of modern bourbon." Ten years earlier, having sold his stake in the OFC distillery (now Buffalo Trace), to George T. Stagg, he set up the Old Taylor distillery near Frankfort in Kentucky. The distillery featured a faux-Castle and sunken gardens on-site, and was the birthplace of bourbon tourism. Here he established the Old Taylor brand, which following Prohibition passed into the hands of National Distillers, one of the "big four" distilling company's who dominated the post-repeal market. The distillery itself closed in 1972, but production was moved to the neighbouring Old Grand-dad site until National Distillers were acquired by Jim Beam in 1987, who converted it into a warehousing and bottling facility. Beam marketed the brand alongside the other "Olds" from the National Distiller portfolio (Old Crow and Old Grand-dad) until 2009 when the Sazerac Company acquired it, returning Taylor's name to his early spiritual home at Buffalo Trace.

The Buffalo Trace version of the brand is known as Colonel E.H. Taylor. With the exception of the Barrel Strength releases, they are all Bottled in Bond at the 100 US proof required by the law that Taylor heroically campaigned for. This straight bourbon was bottled in 2011. A sought-after limited release, this contains whiskey from barrels that survived a tornado that ripped through Warehouse C at Buffalo Trace in 2006. The warehouse, built by Taylor himself, required repairs to its walls and roof meaning the barrels on the top floor were exposed to the intense Kentucky sun as well as several torrential rainfalls. The result was an intense maturation period, and this is a blend of 100 of those specially selected barrels, aged between 9 and 12 years.

 

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