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Article: Well-fortified: modern mixologists use vermouth, port, sherry and Madeira to their best advantage in today's hot cocktails.
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- Cheers
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- May 1, 2006
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It must have been one heck of a party. As the story goes, during the presidential race of 1876, New York socialite Jenny Jerome held a campaign function for candidate Samuel Tilden at the famed Manhattan Club and requested a special cocktail be created for the event.
What the staff devised consisted of rye whiskey, Angostura bitters and Italian (sweet) vermouth. Like a spark to tinder, the cocktail swept through New York society. The drink we now know as the Manhattan literally became the toast of the town. It's said financial mogul J. P. Morgan drank it at the end of each trading day.
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