Drink of the Week: George Washington's Rye

The Father of Our Country made a mean bottle of whiskey

It was 11 o’clock on a Monday morning and I was drinking rye whiskey.

But it wasn’t just any rye whiskey. I was sipping from an elegant little tasting glass inscribed with the cypher GW, enjoying four-year-old George Washington Straight Rye Whiskey in the distillery at Mount Vernon, straight out of the barrel. My host was Steve Bashore, whose job title i…