E.H Taylor Small Batch & Eagle Rare Straight Bourbon Bundle

The Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch & Eagle Rare Bundle pairs two of Buffalo Trace's most sought-after allocated bourbons — both drawn from the distillery's low-rye Mash #1, then taken in entirely different directions. It's the cleanest way to taste what proof and age do to the same underlying whiskey, and it puts two bottles that rarely sit on a shelf into a single order.

Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch is Bottled in Bond at exactly 100 proof — distilled in a single season, aged a minimum of four years, and bottled under federal supervision. The barrels are pulled from Warehouse C, the century-old rickhouse Colonel Taylor built himself in 1881. The nose opens on chocolate, molasses and brown sugar, with sweet cherry and light cinnamon underneath. The palate is dense and candied — stone fruit, dark grape and pepper — before a creamy finish turns dry and leathery with white pepper and dried apricot.

Eagle Rare takes the same mash bill and sits it in oak for a minimum of ten years, then bottles it at a gentler 90 proof. Age does the work here: toffee, candied almond and orange peel on the nose, a palate of vanilla, dark cherry and toasted oak, and a long dry finish with leather and cocoa. Where the Taylor is bold and sweet, the Eagle Rare is restrained and woody.

Taste them side by side and the contrast is the point — one bourbon, two philosophies, roughly six years and ten proof points apart. Both are true sipping whiskeys, best neat or with a few drops of water.

Both bottles are allocated releases secured through our distributor network. When this batch sells through, it's gone until the next allocation. Ships within 48 hours, insured, with adult-signature delivery.