Cigar Pairing: Hochstadter’s Vatted Straight Rye Whiskey

(Cigar Aficionado) Vatted whiskey, a term that seemed to have breathed its last in Scotland some eight years ago, has been revived on these shores. But this time it comes as a rye, not a Scotch. Hochstadter's Vatted Straight Rye Whiskey, from the Cooper Spirits Co., joins five types of North American straight rye whiskeys and applies the nomenclature "vatted" to that category for the first time. Continued