Location: Texas Barbeque Q Smokehouse, Terminal E,Houston Intercontinental Airport

Date: July 2018

Price: $15.00 USD

Recipe: Makers Mark, sweet vermouth and a few dashes of Angosturo bitters

Garnish: Black Cherry

Served: Up

Comments:  Cool online ordering system and a good Manhattn, lacked some bitters for me.

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Location: Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1, Toronto

Date: May 2018

Price: $10.50 CAD ($8.08 USD)

Recipe: Described as "Rye whiskey balanced out with sweet vermouth and a few dashes of Angosturo bitters"

Garnish: Cherry

Served: Up

Comments:  A very solid offering at a great price made with Crown Royal (*what else in Canada)

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Location: The Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur, India

Date: April 2018

Price: 700 Indian Rupee ($10.73 USD)

Recipe: Listed as "American whiskey, Martini Rosso and Angosturo bitter"

Garnish: Cherry

Served: Up

Comments: Interesting twist which I liked a lot was glass rim was dipped in Bitters.  Key to Manhattan is balancing sweetness and punch of bitters and the "rimming" helped with that.

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Location: The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra, India

Date: April 2018

Price: 900 Indian Rupee ($13.80 USD)

Recipe: Listed as Perfect Manhattan with "whisky, bitters and vermouth"

Garnish: Cherry

Served: Up

Comments: As Perfect Manhattan it would be a mix of sweet and dry vermouths and it lacked sweetness I look for.  May appeal to others.  Could have been bigger.

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Location: Oak Bar, Park Hyatt, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date: March 2018

Price: $ 250 Argentine Pesos ($12.36 USD)

Recipe: No recipe but saw Bulliett Bourbon being poured

Garnish: Lemon peel

Served: Rocks

Comments: Was told it was best Manhattan in Buenos Aires but lacked punch (maybe to little bitters?) for me. A little too washed out on the rocks.

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Location: Oak Room, Fairmont Palliser, Calgary, Canada

Date: July 2017

Price: $ 18 CAD ($14.22 USD)

Recipe: Woodford Reserve, sweet vermouth, bitters

Garnish: Black cherry

Served: Up

Comments: I also had a Manhatttan here in April 2016 (MPE#13) but the recipe had changed, though the price was the same.  Still very good.

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Location: Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge, Alaska, USA

Date: July 2017

Price: $10.00

Recipe: As per menu "High West Double Rye, Sweet Vermouth and a dash of bitters"

Garnish: Maraschino cherry

Served: Up

Comments: It was fine and a reasonable price.  Good but not memorable.

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Location: Fred Meyer, Soldotna, USA

Date: July 2017

Price: $2.97 (yes $2.97)

Recipe: Came in a can called "Club Manhattan" which described it as a premium blended whiskey and sweet vermouth.

Garnish: None

Served: Rocks

Comments: Fairly bad example of the genre from a range of Club cocktails in a can, but the price is right....

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I don't need to introduce Martine Nouet to anyone who reads this obscure and occasional blog.  But I am going to.   Martine is a well respected French whisky writer with a penchant for whisky and food pariings and to best of my knowledge she makes her home on Islay (unless some Beexiteers have chased her off by now).  However after reading the attached article (link below) I might worry about the pitchforks and burning torches of the "Cask Strength Brigade" who may upon march upon her cottage chanting their mantra "you can put water in but you can't take it out" and demanding she be burnt in a wicker whisky bottle (a whisker bottle perhaps?) for her herecy.  Why I hear you ask?  What crime against high ABV whisky did she commit?  Well she actually wrote the words "Why I dislike cask strength whisky" on the scotchwhisky.com blog earlier this year. 

And of course she is 100% proof right.

https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/the-way-i-see-it/12917/why-i-dislike-cask-strength-whisky/

I wish I could write (indeed spell) as well her but I did express almost all the same feelings in my blog in March 2013 .... and I have pasted relevent extract below.

"Occasionally I have 'humbly' suggested that bottling whiskies at 60%+ ABV doesn’t help the product and I end up having to dilute anyway. Someone will often try and argue that is a good thing because I can “dilute to my personal taste”. I can hear them now chanting the mantra of the ABV obsessed “you can put water in but you can’t take it out, you can put water in but you can’t take it out”. But it is a silly argument. This is whisky, usually expensive whisky, not orange squash. I don’t want to buy concentrate of whisky that I can easily screw up. I want to buy the product presented to me by the people who created it at the ABV they feel best showcases their product. Many chefs don’t have salt on their restaurant tables because they want the diner to enjoy the food as they think it is best seasoned. They want the food to be judged that way and I feel whisky should be the same. I am not saying a few drops of water to open up a dram aren’t necessary, they often are, but presenting me with 60% ABV spirit (often at cost of $100 or more a bottle) and then expecting me to guess the right water content to add to their whisky is a little asinine.  I dont care what the ABV of a whisky is.... I just want it to taste good.  if it does, then I am happy."

Location: Quinto la Huella, EAST Hotel, Miami, USA

Date: June 2017

Price: $19.05 (Listed at $15.00 then came tax, service charge etc)

Recipe: Did not see but they asked which Bourbon.... I chose Makers Mark

Garnish: Maraschino cherry

Served: Up

Comments: Did not stand out for such an expensive version.  Maybe not the best choice of bourbon for a Manhattan (no rye content).

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