Does no age statement mean a bourbon is young?

Federal labeling rules (27 CFR § 5.74) only require a whiskey to disclose its age on the label if it; or the youngest whiskey in a blend; is under 4 years old. Once a whiskey clears that 4-year mark, stating the age becomes optional. A distillery can choose not to print an age statement on a bourbon that's 6, 10, or 20 years old, often because the age varies batch to batch and they don't want to commit to a single number, or simply because it isn't part of that brand's presentation.

So "no age statement" really tells you one of two different things depending on the bottle: either the whiskey is genuinely young, or it's old enough that the law stopped requiring the distillery to say so. The label alone can't tell you which.