Whiskey Cocktails

Pasubio is the star of the show here, a vino amaro that sits in beautifully whenever sweet vermouth is called for in a drink (and for our money dri...

Burns Night, a celebration of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns, is observed each year on January 25, and is serious business for the Scots. In...

This very New Orleans style drink is actually a proud San Francisco creation, first made in 2004 by Jon Santer, subsequently made drink-famous at B...

One of our favorite twists on the Old Fashioned is the use of a house bitter - blending two dashing bitters together into one new, semi-homemade re...

This marriage of a whiskey sour and a bramble is a perfect companion for an afternoon tipple after a jaunt of whimsy in the forest. The notes of fi...

The Black Manhattan, just as suave and dapper as it's classic brother, is just a bit more dark and brooding - more likely to wax on about Nietzsche...

“I think it tastes like Christmas!” Sother Teague, the owner of New York’s famed bar, Amor-y-Amargo, and the inventor of the Sharpie Mustacheonce t...

Everything you need to be a great ball boy. Basically, a spin on the Rob Roy, with St. George's Baller Whiskey at the center, whose lovely plum liq...

A lush, fruity, and earthy take on the Boulevardier, this take keeps the American Whiskey base, but it couldn't be a more different American whiske...

Though the whiskey highball is as old as seltzer itself, and could hardly be simpler in terms of ingredients, the Japanese managed to embrace it, e...

The Boulevardier was originally mixed up by Erskine Gwynne, the publisher of a magazine that shared the same name. Erskine created his publication ...

A Northern Californian take on the Boulevardier, which ironically comes from Claire Sprouse of New York City's Hunky Dory. Lighter on it's feet tha...

It doesn't get more classic or reliable than this. The original definition of cocktail was simply "any combination of spirit, sugar, and bitters". ...

Named for the classic, over the top Bette Davis melodrama, the name could also refer to the dark victory that is surviving an entire holiday meal w...

Named for the riverside Brooklyn neighborhood, the Red Hook takes the Manhattan and combines it with the much lesser known (naturally) Brooklyn, cr...

A seemingly crazy cocktail experiment gone wildly right, the Trinidad sour uses a full ounce of Angostura Bitters as its base, complemented by an e...

The Negroni's whiskey based little brother, the Boulevardier was created in 1920's Paris by Erskine Gwynne, editor of the Boulevardier magazine. It...

It doesn't get more classic or reliable than this. The original definition of cocktail was simply "any combination of spirit, sugar, and bitters". ...

First served at the Hotel Monteleone's Carousel Bar in the French Quarter (or Vieux Carré) of New Orleans, this drink has long been a favorite of c...

The classic New Orleans cocktail, which is saying something for a city with such a storied drinking history. Basically a Big Easy version of an old...

One of the greatest, most enduring classic cocktails, the Manhattan is basically the Martini's mysterious and brooding older brother. Rye whiskey i...

Created by bartender Sam Ross, this simple, equal-parts drink is made with the Italian aperitivo Aperol and amaro Nonino Quintessentia. (The origi...