Chapel Hill, NC designers' "Urban Bourbon Cathedral" helps Louisville, Kentucky, become one of "52 Places to Go in 2023."

The New York Times recently cited Rabbit Hole Distillery, designed by pod architecture + design (pod a+d) of Chapel Hill, NC, as one of the reasons Louisville, Kentucky, made its international list of the "52  Places to Go in 2023."

Rabbit Hole Distillery is a modern, metal, 45,000-square-foot, $15 million bourbon distillery in the heart of the NuLu district adjacent to downtown Louisville. It has also been an award-winning accomplishment for pod a+d founders Doug Pierson, AIA, and Youn Choi. (See "Dynamic Distillery" link below.)

When Rabbit Hole opened to much fanfare in 2018, the Kentucky Distillers' Association president Eric Gregory said to founder Kaveh Zamanian, "We could not be more impressed with this facility that you’ve built here. It’s absolutely a modern monument to our legendary industry." Distillery.com called it an "Urban Bourbon Cathedral."

Online, the NYT article includes a video with the Louisville section that takes readers inside Rabbit Hole's innovative "Manufacturing Atrium" where bourbon mash is bubbling in a huge fermentation tank and the distilling process has begun in the 48-foot-tall copper still nearby.

Along with Rabbit Hole Distillery and its products, the NYT names Louisville's "rising LGBTQ scene with quilts," drag shows, the Kentucky Derby, and "bourbon-fueled convivial spirit" as more reasons to visit that historic city in 2023.

·       To see all "52 Places to Go in 2023," including Louisville, click here. (Louisville is #40.)

·       For more information on Rabbit Hole Distillery's design and to see a gallery of photos, click here.

·       For more information on pod architecture + design, click here.

·       To read the article "Dynamic Distillery" in Metal Construction News click here.

·       To read Distillery.com's report at the distillery's grand opening, click here.