Eagle Rare 10 Year Old 1978 Old Prentice, Lawrenceburg 10 Year Old 101 Proof Full Quart

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Eagle Rare 10 Year Old 1978 Old Prentice, Lawrenceburg 10 Year Old 101 Proof Full Quart

Eagle Rare is a historic bourbon brand,originally developed bySeagram’sin an effort to capitalise on what it felt were the popular marketing motifs used by Wild Turkey. Theproduced these early bottlings at the Four Roses distillery in Lawrenceburg, before thelabel was acquired by the Sazerac company in the late 1980s.

The Four Roses distillery was built in Lawrenceburg in 1910 by JTS Brown & Sons. Known back then as the Old Prentice, it is one of the Kentucky distilleries on the National Register of Historic Buildings for its distinctive Spanish mission style architecture. It was re-opened in 1933 after the repeal of Prohibition, passing into the hands of Seagram in 1946, who moved the production of their Four Roses brand there and eventually renamed the distillery after it. When Seagram was wound up in the early 2000s, the distillery and its brands were bought by Japanese firm, Kirin, who continue to produce Four Roses to great acclaim, as well as contract distilling for a number of other bourbon brands.

The Sazerac company moved production of th the Eagle Rare brand to what is now Buffalo Trace in 1992.