Sentence examples for classic whiskey from inspiring English sources

Make it a Mamie Taylor ($14), a classic whiskey concoction.

Three of the classic whiskey cocktails — the old-fashioned, the manhattan and the Sazerac — originally called for rye.

The barrel-aged genever will initially be available only in the United States, for $50, and Bols is being blunt in its appeal to American tastes, comparing the barrel-aged genever to bourbon and encouraging drinkers to enjoy it in the context of classic whiskey cocktails like the Old Fashioned.

Three or four ripe peach wedges, Muddled with MINT leaves, a tablespoon of sugar, two tablespoons of water and two LEMON slices, then shaken with bourbon and ice, strained into a glass and served on the rocks, gives you Dale DeGroff's classic Whiskey Peach Smash.

More than 25 years later, that's about to change, as Royal Challenge becomes the first classic Indian whiskey to launch stateside (Bangalore's Amrut Distilleries, which produces a more Scottish-style whiskey started shipping to the United States in 2010).

There is even a Tullamore Dew, a classic Irish blended whiskey "deconstruction" that allows attendees an opportunity to reconstruct a bottling of Tullamore Dew from its various blending components.

I stick with the classics: top-shelf whiskey, good brandy (usually Cognac), a burnished, potent, amber liqueur.

But the cocktails are unfussy and topnotch, classier versions of classics, like the Whiskey Ginger — made with the root, plus the right proportions of Jameson, lemon, and honey — and the East Pole Manhattan, which is actually more like the lesser-known Brooklyn, made with Bulleit rye, amaro, cherry Heering, and bitters.

"It's a nice substitute for whiskey in classic cocktails that call for a peated Scotch, as the spirit provides the same kind of smoke.

For those not in the know, the cocktails are blended and made by longtime Mendocino County distiller Germain-Robin, who have taken classic cocktail brandy or whiskey-based cocktails and aged them for six weeks in small oak barrels.

"What was the use of kidding yourself?" When O'Hara published his liquid-diet classic in 1935, New York was a whiskey town, rye whiskey in particular.