Instead, they focused on teaching me vital life lessons like how to elbow your way into a crowded tapas bar or prepare a proper whiskey highball.

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There are bourbon bars that stock more stuff than anywhere in the Bourbon Belt, bars that serve only drinks made with the freshest fruit, others that have perfected one thing, such as Rockfish, where the whiskey highball craze that recently swept Japan found its most perfect expression.

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