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BTAC Turns 25 with a Permanent E.H. Taylor Bottled-in-Bond Seat
The Antique Collection’s first new permanent expression in nearly two decades joins Eagle Rare 17, Stagg, Handy, Sazerac 18, and William Larue Weller.
Twenty-five years into the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, the Distillery is doing something it hasn’t done since Thomas H. Handy joined the lineup in 2006: adding a permanent seat. Colonel E.H. Taylor Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon arrives as a tribute to the man Buffalo Trace still calls a father of modern bourbon — and as the headline of BTAC’s 2025 release.
The new Taylor is aged about 15 years and four months, bottled at 100 proof to meet bottled-in-bond rules, and drawn from Buffalo Trace’s sour-mash recipe. Tasting notes from the Distillery lean warm vanilla, seasoned oak, maple sweetness, baking spice, and a finish that drifts toward caramel and cherry. Suggested retail is $149.99, with limited direct availability noted via Legacy de Forge.
Returning alongside it are the collection’s usual heavy hitters — Eagle Rare 17, George T. Stagg (this year at a reported 142.8 proof), Thomas H. Handy rye, Sazerac 18-year rye, and William Larue Weller — each in the clear glass packaging and letter-backed ritual collectors expect. If you’ve chased BTAC before, you already know: watch lists, lottery rules, and secondary noise will follow. We’re just glad Taylor’s bottled-in-bond story finally has a permanent shelf in the Antique Collection, not only a one-off cameo.
Source: Buffalo Trace Distillery / Christi Cahill, Sazerac.