In our Luxury lockdown cocktail club series, bartenders from the world’s best bars demonstrate how to make their signature cocktails: from the perfect Old Fashioned to the most famous martini on earthIt’s a week of back-to-basics classics on the Luxury Lockdown Cocktail Club.
Following yesterday’s Whisky Highball, today it’s the turn of the Manhattan, widely said to have been invented at New York’s Manhattan Club in the mid-1870s.
Cocktail lore has it that Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston’s mother) was hosting a banquet for presidential candidate Samuel J.
Tilden on the night it was first concocted.Experts dispute this story, on the basis that Churchill would have been in England, giving birth to Winston, on the date the banquet was.
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