Kaveh Zamanian said when he was thinking and dreaming about building a distillery and starting a brand, his wife would tell him "you're taking the family down the rabbit hole." So when his dream became a reality, Zamanian easily came up with the name -- Rabbit Hole. I first tried Rabbit Hole bourbon last year and immediately loved it. It has all the classic bourbon flavors and not really anything negative about it. This rye whiskey follows that lead. This is not a “barely legal” rye. This bad boy has 95% rye and 5% malted barley in the mashbill. This is the same mashbill as Bulliet 95 rye but this whiskey blows Bulliet away in terms of flavor. Rabbit Hole Rye is bottled at 47.5% ABV. It doesn’t carry an age statement other than to say it’s “matured over 2 years”. It’s a nice medium amber in the glass. It sticks to the glass with a thick oily coating and leaves slow legs after giving it a spin or two. According to the bottle this is from batch #3. The nose is pretty much everything you’d expect from a rye: spicy with cinnamon and cloves, pumpernickel bread. Faint notes of brown sugar and molasses. This carries through to the palate with dark honey, cinnamon and cloves. A little one dimensional but very good. The finish on this is excellent. It’s decently long with more of that spicy profile: lots of black pepper and cinnamon, with oak char, molasses, leather, and tobacco. This was $50 at my local Kroger, about the same as their bourbon. For that price this is a decent value. This is a very good whiskey that belies it’s young age. Someone at Rabbit Hole knows what they’re doing. I look forward to seeing what they come up with in a few years when they have some more aged stock to work with. 3.75/5. Cheers!