Rabbit Hole Dareringer Straight Bourbon Finished in PX Sherry Casks

Some cherry and caramel mostly, with a bit of vanilla and almond. Can tell the sherry barrel as well

Sweet cherries and caramel. Smooth.

First sampling from Rabbit Hole. Excited to see what we have here: Nose opens with dark fruits, raisins, caramel, vanilla, apple, pistachio, sweet oak, and just a touch too much ethanol for a 90 proof. That said, the nose has a decent pungency and is promising enough. Palate opens with kind of a standard caramel/vanilla note and some generic red fruit (cherry) annnnnnd “that’s all folks!” I mean there is nothing else there; the mid-palate simply does not exist. Are my taste buds broken or is this literally the blandest base bourbon ever? I just can’t state enough how boring and flat this is. Yikes. Finish is where things take a welcome upturn as the PX cask shines through with raisin, date, fig, pistachio, almond, pepper, and oak. But it’s quite short and with a finish this nice and complex, you want it to last. Mouthfeel is full and chewy which is a pleasant surprise and really complements the finish. Overall, this is as if you took a turd and polished it really well so that it’s shiny and sparkly, but can’t change the fact that it is still in fact, a turd. Hard to believe this is sourced from MGP, but then again I can’t remember any other offerings I have had from their wheated mashbill, so there this the possibility that it just sucks mightily. At $80, this is laughably far from a rebuy and honestly I probably rated it too high at a 3.5, but the nose and finish kept this from being a total train wreck. Too bad as I wanted to like it more.

Nice Carmel finish

Favorite we tried here. Cherry vanilla, pretty smooth.

Really nice balance with an almost perfect spice level on the finish.

Really smooth. Not a lot of burn. $25 a pour at Black Door