Buy E.H. Taylor 18 Year Marriage 750ml — Kentucky Straight Bourbon

DESCRIPTION & TASTING PROFILE

Buy E.H. Taylor 18 Year Marriage 750ml and you’re getting a genuinely unusual construction for a bottled-in-bond release: three separate Buffalo Trace mash bills, aged independently for eighteen years, then blended and allowed to marry before bottling rather than distilled as a single unified batch.

The Profile

• Producer: Buffalo Trace Distillery
• Region: Frankfort, Kentucky, USA
• Spirit Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (Bottled-in-Bond, Small Batch Marriage)
• Proof/ABV: 100 Proof (50% ABV) — fixed by Bottled-in-Bond law
• Age Statement: 18 Years (barreled 2002, released 2020)
• Mash Bill: A marriage of three Buffalo Trace mash bills — one wheated bourbon recipe and two distinct rye bourbon recipes

Sensory Tasting Notes

The Nose

Vanilla butter cake leads, rich and inviting, with the layered complexity of three different grain recipes coming through as soft baking spice and light fruit.

The Palate

Rich and full, carrying caramel and cinnamon with a rounded sweetness from the wheated component balanced against firmer structure from the two rye recipes.

The Finish

Long, closing on toasted oak and cinnamon with a distinct hint of spearmint that lingers well past the swallow.

The Heritage

Buffalo Trace has periodically used the E.H. Taylor line to showcase techniques beyond standard single-mash-bill bottling, and 18 Year Marriage represents one of the more technically ambitious releases in that tradition, uniting wheated and rye bourbon character in one bonded bottle. Barreled in 2002 and held for a full eighteen years before this 2020 release, it arrived as a strictly one-time offering shipped in a wooden crate modeled after Taylor’s own historical transport boxes, and its combination of scarcity, age, and construction has made it one of the most collector-chased entries in the entire E.H. Taylor collection.