Woodford Reserve for sipping. Never mixing

They are not exclusive. It is a matter of taste and budget.

Some people will drink a whiskey neat or on ice that I don't think is that good. And some people will put an expensive whiskey in coke when I think that good whiskey is mostly wasted in a mixed drink.

Bill Gates has enough money that he could mix Pappy Van Winkle in coke and not care. Most would agree it is wasted in a drink with a lot of mixer.

Some people will drink Jim Beam's regular bourbon straight up, but I don't like it well enough to drink it that way.

Buffalo Trace, Makers Mark and some others in that general price range are in the middle. Good enough to drink straight, and not so expensive that they are wasted with a mixer.

When people start talking about using whiskey as a mixer I was thinking Old Fashioned or Manhattan. Never even thought of mixing it with Coke.

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Originally posted by XinTX:
When people start talking about using whiskey as a mixer I was thinking Old Fashioned or Manhattan. Never even thought of mixing it with Coke.

In cocktails like an Old Fashioned or a Manhattan, you will probably want the booze to be of much higher quality than the booze you would put in a whiskey and coke. The more mixer, the less important the quality of the hooch.

I might not use the very, very best whiskey for a Manhattan, but I would want pretty good whiskey for that drink.