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Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon vs Eagle Rare 10 Year Old
No flavour axis separates them, so the difference on record is disclosure: Eagle Rare 10 Year Old states 10 years, Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon states no age.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon | Eagle Rare 10 Year Old | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Bourbon | Bourbon |
| Origin | Kentucky, United States | Kentucky, United States |
| Age | No age statement | 10 years |
| Strength | 45% ABV | 45% ABV |
| Cask | New charred American oak | New charred American oak |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 700 ml |
| RRP observed | £32 | £42 |
| Per 10cl | £4.57 | £6.00 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £102 | £133 |
| Chill-filtered | Not stated | Not stated |
What separates them
Both Kentucky whiskies, from different distilleries.
Eagle Rare 10 Year Old states 10 years; Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon states none.
Both matured in new charred american oak; nothing further disclosed.
Neither states chill filtration.
Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon: specifications not yet producer-confirmed.
What the price buys
Eagle Rare 10 Year Old is £10 dearer a bottle than Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Strength keeps that ordering: £102 a litre of pure alcohol for Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon against £133.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon is 5th cheapest and Eagle Rare 10 Year Old 15th cheapest.
Flavour, compared
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| Axis | Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon | Eagle Rare 10 Year Old |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 0 | 0 |
| Sweet | 7 | 7 |
| Fruity | 5 | 6 |
| Spicy | 6 | 5 |
| Woody | 6 | 7 |
| Sherried | 1 | 1 |
| Cereal | 4 | 4 |
| Oily | 6 | 6 |
No axis reaches the 3-point gap we call meaningful. Widest is fruity, 5 against 6.
Identical on peaty, sweet, sherried, cereal and oily.
Each bottle in its own right
Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Brown sugar, vanilla and a clean pepper finish. The bourbon benchmark for the money.
Full record →Eagle Rare 10 Year Old
Toffee, orange peel and dry oak. Excellent at RRP, poor value at what it usually sells for.
Contrary to a widely repeated claim, the 10-year age statement has never been removed — it moved from the neck to the back label in a 2012 redesign, and 'Single Barrel' was dropped when bottling was automated. Eagle Rare 12 launched in June 2025 as a separate SKU, which is the likely source of the confusion. Allocated in the US; the UK is not similarly constrained.
Full record →No overlap in what we list them for: Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon for old fashioned, first bourbon and value, Eagle Rare 10 Year Old for sipping neat.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon and Eagle Rare 10 Year Old: buffalotracedistillery.com. Figures are what those pages published when we last checked them, on 2026-07-30.
Eagle Rare 10 Year Old is allocated in most markets, so the RRP above and the price you can actually pay are usually different.