DrRHCMadden
Eagle Rare 10 Year Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
October 13, 2022 (edited November 5, 2022)
N: Pleasant toasty wood notes blend with flamed orange spritz and maple syrup sweetness. I would go as far as to say the notes are restrained and understated.
P: Honey, salted butter on fresh warm bread, oily and nutty with a little touch of red berries.
F: Medium-short. Vanilla, oak spice and a slight leathery tannic note.
Flavours are delicate and a little short lived. Excellently crisp and clean. Though. Really yummy, but had off the back of Woodford Double Oaked I found this a little lacking, but in what I’m not sure. Maybe I want more richness and depth and I just didn’t find that here.
Now I am looking at the scores on here. 91 official. 4.1 community from almost 11,000 reviews. I’m not far off that score, but am I missing something? Did I do bad in not being wowed by this? Should I have been?
Send help.
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For me, I’ve never been wowed by Eagle Rare 10 year. I think it’s a solid low cost, around 40 USD here in Virginia, bourbon that is easy to drink with low bite that’s perfect for an entry level option but I’d much rather have an Old Forester 1920 or JDSBBP that intensifies those traditional bourbon flavors with a richer mouthfeel. Although those aren’t allocated products, so maybe the limited availability makes Eagle Rare 10 year taste better to some people.