Rabbit Hole Heigold is a flavorful, well-crafted bourbonsweet, spice-laden, balanced, and intriguingideal for sipping or enriching cocktails without overpowering them.Heigold is a thoughtful, layered bottlewhere baking spice meets rye zip, citrus lifts meet creamy caramel, and quality distillation meets historic roots. A compelling everyday bourbon that rewards exploration.

Mash Bill & Distillation

• Mash bill: 70% corn, 25% malted rye, 5% malted barley for a sweet rye-forward profile

• Entry proof: Barreled at 110 proof in char #3, flame-toasted barrelsaged 34 years in Kentucky warehouses

Aroma

Complex nose of root beer, cooked cherries, candied orange, licorice, cloves, iced tea, spearmint, marshmallow, with a hint of varnish

Palate

• Balanced and chewy: Rich butterscotch and caramel rolling into spicy rye, citrus bursts, unsweetened cornbread, cinnamon, clove, ice-cream-shop licorice, almonds, vanilla cream, and herbaceous notes

• Creamy mouthfeel, medium-bodied, with pleasant orange/lemon citrus upfront and warming oak and mint lingering

Finish

Medium-length and fairly dry, finishing with cedary oak, cinnamon pepper spice, balanced sweetness, and a soft herbal mint note .

Highlights & Character

• Intricate flavor combo: Lots of sweet brown sugar and baked goods balanced by high-rye spice

• Seen as a balanced everyday sipper, not overly flashy, but rich in layered detail

• Distinct bottle design honors German stonecutter Christian Heigold, blending tradition with creativity

Whiskey Advocate: “….Rabbit Hole Distillery is unveiling a new whiskeyalong with a complete rebranding of its core range. The change is intended to honor influential figures in Louisville and in the life of Rabbit Hole founder Kaveh Zamanian, and the new whiskeya straight bourbonties the spirit of a 19th-century Kentucky immigrant with Zamanian, who emigrated from Iran as a child. He was a stonecutter who settled here in Louisville, and carved all kinds of ornate symbols of what I consider to be immigrant patriotism, really a tribute to America and what it stands for, Zamanian says. In a lot of ways, I relate to that spirit of patriotism and what America signifies and stands for in terms of opportunity and possibility.

47.5% ABV, 750 ml

Rabbit Holes new whiskey is made with 70% corn, 25% malted rye, and 5% malted barley, aged for just under four years in toasted and charred new oak barrels, and bottled at 47.5% ABV. Called Rabbit Hole Heigold, its named for Christian Heigold, a German who immigrated to Louisville in 1850. A stonecutter by trade, Heigold built a mansion in The Point neighborhood of the city, decorating it with patriotic carvings and epigrams, including a bust of President James Buchanan.

The choice to name a whiskey after Heigold takes on additional dimension when the era in which he lived is put into context. No doubt, Heigold felt love and pride for his new country and wanted to demonstrate it by plying his skillful art on his own home. But visibly exhibiting his American identity was also a political statement at the time, when the anti-immigration and anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party was stoking distrust and hatred of newly arrived immigrants. In Louisville, the loudest local voice for the party was newspaper editor George Prentice, whose rhetoric eventually sparked violence on August 6, 1855, an election day, when an angry Protestant mob attacked German and Irish Catholic businesses and homes, killing 22 people; the day later became known as Bloody Monday.

Heigold and his home survived the violence, and the Know-Nothing Party faded into obscurity shortly thereafter, but those patriotic carvings remain visible on the houses faade, which is now located in Waterfront Park, just a mile and a half from Rabbit Holes distillery. While naming a bourbon for Heigold wasnt a political statement per se, Zamanian says that one of his goals is for the whiskey to unite people in a time of divisiveness.

Spirits embody one of the finest expressions of who we are as human beings, and just like food, music, the arts, its about bringing people together, he explains. Theres a certain kind of political climate these days that seems somewhat divisive, andat Rabbit Hole, were in a very different position in the sense that we want to bring people together, to celebrate our diversity and celebrate our individuality, rather than to make it a divisive or binary issue.”