Eagle Rare Single Barrel Select

Nose: fruit, slight cinnamon, vanilla Palette: sweet cherry cordial, mkre of that vanillaand slight spiciness. So very good

Barrel #022 The nose came out of left field for me. Much darker notes than expected at first. Dark caramel. A prevalent oak note. Slight tobacco. Dark berry. Apple. There was an herbal note, which i was surprised by. Vanilla/cherry becomes noticeable as it opens up. The palate sweetened up some with berry coming through. The dark caramel is still staying prevalent along with oak underneath. It ends with a real sweet cherry, which has reminded me of some finished bourbons I've had in the past. I do love a high proof bourbon. But these ER's remind me again and again that you can find so much flavor in a bottle below 100 proof. This one, in particular, has some complexity behind it. I'm a fan of Eagle Rare, but the initial smell made me worried. But I've found it has everything I like about it, plus more.

Dark berry and oak. Tastes like it smells. Very good flavor

Cherry bomb. Fresh spitting out the pit cherry.