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100 Mile Cocktails: The Whisky Drinks of Four Seasons

Four Seasons mixologists in North, Central and South America got to work on these “farm to glass” whisky cocktails.

Mar 23, 2012
  • Four Seasons Hotel Boston’s “Nor’Easter” Cocktail
  • “Pickett’s Fence” and “’New’ Old Fashioned”
  • Four Seasons Hotel New York's Manhattan Cocktail
  • Four Seasons Hotel Toronto’s “A.C.C (All Canadian Cocktail)”
  • Four Seasons Resort Vail's “As the Crow Flies” Cocktail
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Tying for first place in the competition, Four Seasons Hotel Boston’s Nor’Easter cocktail is made with Bully Boy White Whiskey, Boston’s first liquor producer since the prohibition.
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Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore’s cocktail, Pickett’s Fence (left), is made with cracked dry bay leaf and garnished with granny smith apple rind. Four Seasons Hotel Chicago’s cocktail, the New Old Fashioned (right) is made with macerated Michigan cherries, ginger root and green cardamom. (Ritz-Carlton Chicago, A Four Seasons Hotel's cocktail, Winters Embrace, is not pictured.)
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Four Seasons Hotel New York's cocktail called, fittingly, the Manhattan is made with three herbs—rosemary, thyme and oregano.
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Four Seasons Hotel Toronto’s A.C.C (All Canadian Cocktail) is made with spherical ice to limit the drink’s dilution. But, the ice is also flavored, so the taste of the drink evolves as the ice slowly melts.
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As the Crow Flies by Four Seasons Resort Vail is made with peach eaux de vie and Rocky Mountain Soda reduction.
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Some 36 Four Seasons hotels in North, Central and South America were challenged to create a cocktail using only locally sourced ingredients. Limited only by their imaginations and a 100-mile radius, the hotel mixologists put their own spin on a 100 Mile Cocktail. Local white whisky was featured in cocktails from Boston and the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago. Four Seasons in Chicago, New York and Vail opted for the bourbon whisky variety, while Baltimore (who’s killer creation also used vodka), and Toronto chose rye. Judged on creativity, taste and look, it was Boston’s whisky-based Nor’Easter that came out on top and tied for first place overall with Hualalai’s Kōa Wai cocktail, a vodka-based drink.

For the full recipe of each of these 100 Mile Cocktails, be sure to visit our Facebook page and view the photo album dedicated to these creative concoctions.

Browse our photo galleries by cocktail type for all 37 of the 100 Mile Cocktails.

100 Mile Cocktails: The Vodka Drinks of Four Seasons
100 Mile Cocktails: The Gin Drinks of Four Seasons
100 Mile Cocktails: The Beer, Rum, Tequila and Other Drinks of Four Seasons
100 Mile Cocktails: The Winning Drinks of Four Seasons

Or, find a cocktail by participating hotel:

Atlanta
Austin
Baltimore
Boston
Buenos Aires
Chicago (Four Seasons Chicago)
Chicago (The Ritz-Carlton)
Costa Rica
Dallas
Denver
Hawaii, Hualalai
Hawaii, Lana‘i at Manele Bay
Hawaii, Maui
Jackson Hole
Las Vegas
Los Angeles (Four Seasons Los Angeles)
Los Angeles (Beverly Wilshire) (submitted two cocktails)
Los Angeles Area (Westlake Village)
Miami
Nevis
New York
Palm Beach
Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
Philadelphia
Punta Mita, Mexico
San Diego, Aviara (Residence Rental)
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Scottsdale
Seattle
St. Louis
Toronto
Vail
Vancouver
Washington, DC
Whistler


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