Since 2016, we’ve set the lofty aim of discovering the last word expression of each traditional cocktail. After asking dozens of America’s finest bartenders to submit their most interesting recipes for Rob Roys, Jungle Birds, Martinis and past, we blind tasted all of them with a panel of specialists to crown a winner. In the hunt for the platonic best, we’ve found that some first place winners strictly adhere to conventional recipes (the case for the Manhattan and the Bamboo), whereas others look to unorthodox and doubtlessly controversial strategies—reminiscent of orange juice in a Whiskey Bitter or a Negroni that forgoes an equal elements building. Right here, we’ve rounded up the perfect of the perfect traditional cocktail recipes.