E.H. Taylor Corojo Goes on Sale

E.H. Taylor will be the latest Buffalo Trace bourbon brand to get its own cigar.

The E.H. Taylor Corojo has arrived at Cigars International and its sister stores. Blend-wise, the cigar uses an Ecuadorian corojo wrapper over a binder from Jalapa, Nicaragua and fillers from the Dominican Republic. For this release, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) has turned to TABACALERA LA iSLA, a newer factory in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, to make the E.H. Taylor cigars.

• E.H. Taylor Corojo Corona (6 x 46) — $12.20 (Box of 15, $182.99)
• E.H. Taylor Corojo Robusto (5 x 50) — $11.73 (Box of 15, $175.99)
• E.H. Taylor Corojo Toro Gordo (6 x 56) — $13.07 ($195.99)

STG—the parent company of Cigars International, General Cigar Co. and others—has a partnership with Sazerac & Co., the owners of Buffalo Trace, the distillery where E.H. Taylor bourbon is produced.

Other releases in this partnership include two Buffalo Trace cigars sold through Meier & Dutch, an Eagle Rare gift set sold by Cigars International, a cinnamon-flavored Fireball cigar, and multiple Cohiba and Weller bourbon collaborations.

E.H. Taylor is named after Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr., a Kentucky banker who, in 1869, purchased a distillery in Frankfort, Ky. It would reopen two years later named O.F.C., which was laterw sold to George T. Stagg. Taylor would go on to start another distillery but would fight Stagg over the use of the “Taylor” name, hence the name Old Taylor, which Buffalo Trace still makes today. Compared to Old Taylor, Colonel E. H. Taylor is a more expensive bourbon, though Taylor Jr., the person, was never an actual colonel.

Taylor’s contributions to the bourbon industry range from the use of copper kettles in distilling, steam heating in barrel warehouses, and work in passing the Bottled-in Bond-Act of 1897.

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