Rare Character Brook Hill Private Barrel 10 Year Old 'Nom De Guerre' Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750ml

'Nom De Guerre' is the barrel designation on this one-of-one Rare Character Brook Hill Private Barrel 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, bottled at barrel proof in 750ml format by Rare Character Whiskey Co. of Lexington, Kentucky. A single private group selected the cask and supplied its name; the proof it reached and the bottles it yielded are stated on the adaptive label and apply to this barrel only.

Ten years is a meaningful threshold for Kentucky bourbon. A decade of summer expansion and winter contraction drives spirit deep into charred oak and back out again, trading youthful grain heat for oxidative depth, tannic structure, and the darker register of caramelized wood sugars. Stocks that survive ten years without being blended away are scarce by definition, which is why age-stated single barrels at this mark command such attention. Kentucky's climate does the work no cellar can imitate, and it does that work slowly; there is no shortcut to the tenth summer.

That a company founded only in 2021 can offer them at all comes down to sourcing. Rare Character's founders secured mature barrels from undisclosed Kentucky distilleries through personal relationships, then reserved the deepest of those stocks for Brook Hill — the revived turn-of-the-century label, announced in March 2024, that they position as home for their best of the best. The math is stark for a young house: ten-year whiskey bottled in 2024 had to be laid down around 2014, long before Rare Character existed — hence the value of relationships with distillers who planned ahead.

For collectors, an age statement plus a one-of-one designation is a double lock: the decade in oak cannot be hurried, and the barrel cannot be duplicated. 'Nom De Guerre' spent ten years becoming itself, and this run of bottles is the only testimony that barrel will ever give.

• Size: 750ml
• Proof: 129.92 (64.96% ABV) — barrel proof, per Rare Character
• Age: 10 years
• Origin: Kentucky
• Distillery: Undisclosed Kentucky distillery; bottled by Rare Character Whiskey Co., Lexington, KY
• Whiskey Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon — single barrel, barrel proof
• Series: Brook Hill Private Barrel program
• Production: Single barrel — 120-bottle yield; released in Tennessee (per Rare Character)
• Selection: Private barrel designation 'Nom De Guerre' — barrel specifics per label
• Presentation: Colored wax over cork; barrel-unique label art