What is a Manhattan?
Manhattan: Whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters, stirred.
- Category
- Drink family
- Taste
- Rich, spicy, bittersweet.
- Strength
- Strong
- Similar to
- Rob Roy (with Scotch)
The story
It was most likely created at New York's Manhattan Club in the 1870s. The popular story that Jennie Churchill (Winston's mother) invented it at a party is a myth: she was in England at the time.