2022 24 Days of Whisk(e)y - Day 9

Happy Friday! Day 9... today we're drinking a store pick/single bottle of Eagle Rare Kentucky Straight Bourbon, aged 10 years, from Liquor World. I bought this a few years back, and today is the day I drink it (:

On the nose, I get an orange sherbet, some mint, brown sugar sweetness, and a a touch of alcohol burn. The taste is a mild sweetness, some hot peppery spice, some sort of soft fruit notes, and some oak as well. The finish I get oak, the pepper - medium duration for the initial finish, but the pepper lingers for some time.

With water, I get some floral notes on the nose and some brown sugar, there is more oak on the taste and it's a bit softer overall, the finish turns a bit more spicy hot - this is probably better neat. While this is a store pick, this does track with what I recall from previous tastings of Eagle Rare, though previously I did get some licorice notes that are not present tonight. At $35 or so this is a steal of a deal but it can be difficult to find at times. Certainly worth keeping around, rated 3.25/5.0