Colonel E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Batch 13 lands at 127.3 and does exactly what the line always does — big, uncut, and consistent. Here's why that consistency is both the appeal and the reason I'd try before I buy.

The whiskey distilleries worth planning a trip around across the West, Kentucky excluded on purpose. Fourth and final installment of this year's annual series.

Buffalo Trace itself has one of the longest continuous whiskey-making histories in America. The distillery traces its roots back to the late 1700s, when travelers and herds of buffalo carved paths across the Kentucky frontier to the banks of the Kentucky River.

The single most useful thing on a bourbon label isn't the age or the proof — it's the mash bill. Here's how to read it.

In 1984 Elmer T. Lee bottled one barrel by itself and accidentally invented modern bourbon hunting. The history behind Blanton's, Warehouse H, and the stoppers.

Finding Eagle Rare at or near MSRP used to be a no-brainer for me. At one point, I may or may not have had a closet full of the stuff. It was my tried-and-true daily drinker when I first moved to Washington, D.C.