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Eagle Rare 10 Year Old vs Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon
No flavour axis separates them, so the difference on record is disclosure: Eagle Rare 10 Year Old states 10 years, Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon states no age.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Eagle Rare 10 Year Old | Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Bourbon | Bourbon |
| Origin | Kentucky, United States | Kentucky, United States |
| Age | 10 years | No age statement |
| Strength | 45% ABV | 45.7% ABV |
| Cask | New charred American oak | Fire-charred new American white oak, air-seasoned 18-60 months, toasted before charring |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 700 ml |
| RRP observed | £42 | £58 |
| Per 10cl | £6.00 | £8.29 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £133 | £181 |
| Chill-filtered | Not stated | Not stated |
What separates them
Both Kentucky whiskies, from different distilleries.
Eagle Rare 10 Year Old states 10 years; Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon states none.
Cask as each producer describes it: Eagle Rare 10 Year Old in new charred american oak, Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon in fire-charred new american white oak, air-seasoned 18-60 months, toasted before charring.
Neither states chill filtration.
Colour: Eagle Rare 10 Year Old silent, Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon natural colour.
What the price buys
Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon is £16 dearer a bottle than Eagle Rare 10 Year Old.
Strength keeps that ordering: £133 a litre of pure alcohol for Eagle Rare 10 Year Old against £181.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Eagle Rare 10 Year Old is 15th cheapest and Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon 25th cheapest.
Flavour, compared
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| Axis | Eagle Rare 10 Year Old | Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 0 | 0 |
| Sweet | 7 | 7 |
| Fruity | 6 | 5 |
| Spicy | 5 | 6 |
| Woody | 7 | 7 |
| Sherried | 1 | 1 |
| Cereal | 4 | 4 |
| Oily | 6 | 7 |
No axis reaches the 3-point gap we call meaningful. Widest is fruity, 6 against 5.
Identical on peaty, sweet, woody, sherried and cereal.
Each bottle in its own right
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 →Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Rich caramel and baking spice with unusual depth for the strength. Genuinely small batch.
Actually small batch, unlike most bottles using the phrase: Michter's states each batch is held in a tank sized for a maximum of twenty barrels. It also publishes a barrel entry proof of 103 against the 125 legal maximum, which is unusually low and unusually disclosed.
Full record →Both listed for the same jobs: sipping neat.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Eagle Rare 10 Year Old and Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon: buffalotracedistillery.com, michters.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.