The Rabbit Hole line up (image via Debbie Nelson/The Whiskey Wash) Tasting Notes: Rabbit Hole Cavehill Kentucky Straight Bourbon
“I just hope I live long enough to taste all the great whiskey we’re laying down.” “I want Rabbit Hole to be seen as The Beatles of American whiskey, putting out hit after hit,” he told me. Zamanian, for his part, is far from humble about his aspirations for the entire line. While not as intense as the Founder’s Collection Straight Rye, the flagship Boxergrail still packs the punch you expect from rye while adding a layer of grass and vegetation that is distinctively Rabbit Hole. The Boxergrail rye (green label), as I wrote in December, is a tip of the cap to Louisville native Muhammad Ali and more broadly to the city’s history of neighborhood boxing gyms. Bourbons are already relatively sweet – often providing hints of honey, vanilla, butterscotch and brown sugar – so sherry-cask finishing risks pushing it over the top into cloying. Named for Zamanian’s wife Heather, who he says is sweet and elegant and dared him to go down the rabbit hole of bourbon, this whiskey is trying to thread a difficult needle.
The Dareringer sherry-cask finish bourbon (burgundy label) features a mash bill with 18% wheat and 14% malted barley. The rye spice is definitely apparent in the bourbon named after him, and will attract those who appreciate high-rye bourbons like Four Roses, Basil Hayden’s or Bulleit. The Heigold House Facade, featuring his stone carvings, remains a postcard-ready stop on any tour of Louisville today. The Heigold high-rye bourbon (blue label) features 25% imported German rye, and is named in honor of Christian Heigold, a stonemason from Germany who settled in Louisville in 1850.
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