Manhattan Experience Winners with Woodford Reserve Bourbon and Esquire Magazine

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BourbonBlog.com brings you the finalists of the Manhattan Experience 2013 and the recipes below. Tonight in Manhattan, New York, these mixologists face off to see who has the best Manhattan for the finale! We’ll bring you the first place winner here on BourbonBlog.com, we can tell you it will be one of these recipes below!… Read more »

Woodford Reserve and Esquire Magazine Crown “Master of the Manhattan”

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The wait is over…the perfect Manhattan Cocktail recipe has been found! Woodford Reserve tells BourbonBlog.com that after searching the country for the nation’s ultimate well-crafted Manhattans, Woodford Reserve bourbon and Esquire magazine have crowned Marcelo Nascimento from Austin, Texas and his “Voodoo Manhattan” as the “Master of the Manhattan” for 2011. Winning recipe below. For more of… Read more »

Woodford Reserve and Esquire Magazine to Showcase Nation’s Ultimate Manhattans

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Woodford Reserve tells BourbonBlog.com that with the recent resurgence of pre-Prohibition bourbon cocktails, the classic Manhattan is making a comeback across the country. Woodford Reserve bourbon and Esquire magazine have searched the country for the nation’s ultimate well-crafted Manhattans and will feature 11 “Masters of the Manhattan” on January 10 during The Manhattan Experience Finals… Read more »

Woodford Reserve and Esquire Magazine Search for the Ultimate Well Crafted Manhattan 2010

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Woodford Reserve bourbon tells BourbonBlog.com that they are once again teaming up with Esquire magazine and this year giving eligible bartenders and at-home mixologists the chance to win a trip to New York City as part of the Craft the Ultimate Manhattan contest beginning this fall. Last year, we took you from Louisville, Kentucky to… Read more »

Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience Contest Finals at Soho Mews with Esquire Magazine by Matt Capucilli

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Arriving at the penthouse at the Soho Mews building in downtown New York City, I speak briefly with two attractive ladies working the front door and I follow a courtyard to a solitary elevator ride. At the top floor I’m quickly greeted with a classic Woodford Manhattan cocktail, and the first sip smoothly welcomes me… Read more »

Woodford Reserve and Esquire Magazine Crown Jeromy Edwards “Master of the Manhattan” Tonight in New York City

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Tonight, BourbonBlog.com’s Matt Capucilli attended the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience finals with a front row seat with Master Distiller Chris Morris in New York City to watch Jeromy Edwards become the “Master of the Manhattan.”  Read Matt’s article here on this link on BourbonBlog.com.   BourbonBlog.com is in New York because this search has just… Read more »

Esquire Manhattan featuring Woodford Reserve by David Wondrich

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To celebrate the spirit of crafting the ultimate cocktail during the Manhattan Experience and Craft of the Ultimate Manhattan Contest with Woodford Reserve and Esquire magazine, Esquire magazine’s resident mixologist David Wondrich has developed the Esquire Manhattan featuring Woodford Reserve. The cocktail recipe is as follows: 2 oz. Woodford Reserve bourbon 1 oz. Cinzano red… Read more »

Woodford Reserve and Esquire Magazine’s Manhattan Experience

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Woodford Reserve bourbon and Esquire magazine have teamed up to give bartenders and people across the country the chance to become the master of the Manhattan by submitting their recipes on www.wellcraftedmanhattan.com. Tonight at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, the Manhattan Experience discovered the best Manhattan in Kentucky by voting Jeromy Edwards (in photo below)… Read more »

Woodford Reserve Master of Manhattan Winning Recipe 2013

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After a nationwide search, Woodford Reserve has crowned  Travis Fourmont, a bartender from the Detroit area, the 2013 Master of the Manhattan after his creative  “Midnight Manhattan”  cocktail was judged as the best by a panel of experts. BourbonBlog.com‘s NYC correspondent Matt Capucilli was at reporting from the finale event at No 8. in Manhattan on Janauary… Read more »