Cocktails by spirit

Whisky: bourbon, rye, and the Australian single malt.

The Old Fashioned. The Manhattan. The Boulevardier. The Whisky Sour. The cocktails that taste the way a good bar smells.

A short note on whisky cocktails

Whisky cocktails are the serious end of the drinks cabinet. Bourbon for sweetness and vanilla, rye for spice, and Australian single malt – Starward in particular, from Melbourne – for a fruit-forward drinkability you do not get from the scotch shelf. These drinks are almost universally spirit-forward: two ounces of whisky, a small sweetener, a dash of bitters, the right garnish. No umbrellas.

The bottles we pour

The shelf for this spirit. Each links to its own Food & Drinks review.

Starward Two-Fold Whisky

Starward Two-Fold Whisky

Starward Two-Fold is a double-grain Aussie whisky matured in Australian red wine barrels, and it tastes like Melbourne decided to make a bourbon-adjacent thing out of entirely its…

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Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey

Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey

Our takeBulleit Bourbon has a high-rye mash bill - around 28% - which gives it a spicy, peppery lift that you don't get from softer corn-heavy bourbons. Tangerine,…

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Bulleit Rye

Bulleit Rye

Bulleit Rye is the bottle that makes a Manhattan taste the way a Manhattan should taste: spicy, dry, slightly bitter, unapologetically American. 95 percent rye in the mash…

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Woodford Reserve Bourbon

Woodford Reserve Bourbon

Woodford is the bourbon that people who don't drink bourbon often can point to by name, and there is a reason for that. Big honey, orange peel, vanilla,…

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Buffalo Trace Bourbon

Buffalo Trace Bourbon

Buffalo Trace is the bourbon you recommend to friends because it is cheap, available, and flat-out better than bottles that cost twice as much. Rye grass, brown sugar,…

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