An Easy, Delicious Rye-Benedictine Old Fashioned

A three-ingredient classic cocktail that is herbal, spicy, and surprisingly satisfying.

This week’s cocktail is not the last Bénédictine cocktail I’ll be featuring in this newsletter. But it is the last one I’ll be featuring in this loosely defined series. 

Bénédictine is instructive. On its own, it is frankly kind of weird — sweet and herbal and earthy and a little aromatic. It is not quite an amaro, not quite a vermouth, and not quite a c…