Eagle Rare 17 Year Bourbon (Fall 2019)

Nose: vanilla, deep caramel, sweet oak, dark chocolate covered cherries, graham cracker, crisp green apple Palate: marshmallow, cinnamon and spice, dark chocolate, caramel candies with vanilla centers, more cherry and red fruit, ends with a woody note Everytime I come back into this I get more flavors and smells. I get a vibe of ECBP mixed with regular ER. The extra proof points help this out quite a bit...would love to see what a regular ER at 100+ would be like. That old oak vanilla and dark chocolate note just overwhelms with a hug and tells you this is a 17year old product. Worth the hype.

Meh. For the 1k I paid I expected more. Good not great. Wouldn’t pay more than 200 for this one. Plenty of cherry. Lots of oak. Nothing that blew my mind. Surprisingly I prefer this with a cube. Nice mouth feel.

Oak and spice on the nose with some brown sugar. Dark cherries. Palate is more oak, brown sugar, some vanilla. Medium to long finish. A lot of oak but not over-oaked

Favorite of the 2019 lineup

This was a little hot on the front for me. The flavor was probably too complex for my simpleton taste buds, but there was a good bit of acetone, I know the proof would provide more heat, but I was hoping it would be smoother. The finish, however, was excellent. This would probably make a mean old fashioned, which is what I plan to try next.