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Rye Manhattan

"One of the great classic cocktails, this one's made the old fashioned way -- with rye whiskey."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rye and cherry work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

1 drink
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Fill a mixing glass with ice.

  2. Add the rye whiskey, sweet vermouth and 2 dashes of Angostura bitters to the mixing glass.

  3. Stir gently for about 30 seconds until well chilled.

  4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

  5. Add the maraschino cherry to the glass and serve right away.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Rye + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Rye + vermouthtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Vermouth + cherrytop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs