Eagle Rare - 10 Year Old Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml)

Each bottle of Eagle Rare offers consistent flavors but with a seemingly individual personality from each unique barrel. Eagle Rare is a bourbon that lives up to its name with its lofty distinctive taste experience.

Complex aromas of toffee hints of orange peel herbs honey leather and oak segue into a bold dry oaky flavor on the palate with notes of candied almonds and very rich cocoa. The bourbon is dry and lingering on the finish. "

The bright honey/topaz color shows sparkling bronze core features impeccable purity; the early aromas include gentle grain toasted honey-wheat bread and tobacco leaf with aeration the aroma quickly transforms into a pedal-to-the-metal Bourbon bouquet as evolved scents of ripe banana and charcoal tweak the olfactory sense in the middle stage whiffs -- fragrances of lanolin almond butter melon and oil accent the toastiness beautifully -- it's a somewhat restrained or better understated aroma but I sense lots of power lying just beneath the surface; my my my what have we here -- in the mouth this oily toasty beauty seduces the taste buds at palate entry with dry flavors of cereal grain and mild oak resin -- the mid-palate tastes explode on the tongue in unabashedly sweet and oily flavors of black raisins grape- fruit charred oak and candied almonds; the finish is long corny sweet moderately fiery and lasciviously oily; easily one of the most tactile yet assertive and expressive Bourbons I've tasted in the last two years; fasten your seat belts.

The label says 10 years old but this tastes more like bourbon in its mid teens. A big bourbon and quite the antithesis of the 80 Strong below. Sweet notes of maple syrup and toffee are quickly taken over by firm mint and dried fruits which then yields to emerging notes of polished leather roasted nuts and dry resinous oak. Long spicy dried finish with cinnamon mint and oak. For those who like their bourbon bold and with plenty of oak impact.