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.