A good whiskey shelf does not need to be deep. It needs to be honest. One bottle for a Tuesday night when all you want is a finger of something warm over ice, one for a dinner party where somebody is going to ask for an old fashioned, one for the friend who knows what she is talking about, one for a birthday, and one for the night you actually want to sit down with a book and pay attention. Five bottles, five reasons, five prices that scale with the occasion. Here is what I would stock right now, all American, all on liquor store shelves in Dallas this week.
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