Tasting notes

nose

pear, apple and fig with banana, maple syrup and custard, edged by allspice, mint and licorice

palate

black pepper and allspice over custard and dried fruit, with prune, berry, toasted almond and a floral, winey lift

finish

anise and licorice with cinnamon, turning to leather and an earthy dryness

Mash bill

95% rye, 5% malted barley. There is no corn in the recipe, so rye makes up nearly all of the grain. Rabbit Hole has not published the rye variety or where it is grown.

Why it's craft

Follesrunn is the second release of Rabbit Hole's Distillery Series, small cask-strength batches of four-to-six-year-old whiskey given experimental finishes and sold through the Louisville distillery. The name nods to Folle Blanche, one of the classic cognac grapes. Rabbit Hole distills on copper Vendome column stills at the distillery it opened in 2018; founder Kaveh Zamanian left clinical psychology to make whiskey, and Pernod Ricard has held a majority stake since 2019.