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RH, are you still in Houston? There was a cigar-bar over on Kirby around Westheimer that had a heckuva good whiskey selection. Step in there and tell the barkeep you'd like a proper manhattan, with Van Winkle rye if they've got it.
The distillers add Rye grain to most bourbon mash in order to bring up more of a spicy flavor that balances the corns sweetness. Only a handful of real American rye whiskey's are available these days. Old Overholt is your best $10-12 bet, WT Rye is ~ $16 or so, Van Winkle rye is $30 or so, jump on that if you see it, Speqs should have it. A few other decent rye's can be had back east (where rye was more traditional. Pennsylvannian "Old Monongahela" is what George Washington and Andy Jackson drank. Rev. Elijah Craig hadn't invented the charred-barrel aging process and real bourbon yet. God bless him).
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