Eagle Rare 10 years Bourbon Whiskey

Description

Eagle Rare 10 years Bourbon Whiskey, is masterfully crafted and carefully aged for no less than ten years. Every barrel is discriminately selected to offer consistent flavor but with a seemingly individual personality. Eagle Rare is a bourbon that lives up to its name with its lofty, distinctive taste experience.

On the nose: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord! This might be the most cheery nose on a bourbon I have tried. It’s so… good. There’s a wave of creamy vanilla to start. Underlying that is a luscious, juicy cherry at perfect ripeness, with a balanced tart nuance. All this is covered by a gooey layer of melted milk chocolate. I want to make a pie out of this. There’s also undertones of muddy clumps of earth and damp wood, in the best of ways.

OK, back to reality. This is still pretty excellent. It doesn’t reach the point of sensory saturation that Stagg Jr. does, but there’s an all-around completeness to this. At the front of the mouth, you’ve got a tart lick of fruit balanced by an astringent tightness. Between the front and middle of the tongue, this lapses into a watery dirtiness that fails to engage, which is the only real flaw evident here. But wait! At midpalate, that all yields to a tart fruitiness that transitions to a lingering, hot mouthfeel that asserts itself way above the ABV. Long after the last swallow, a chocolatey-dirtiness subtly re-emerges throughout the mouth.