Martini

Martini
Photo by Jeremy Samuelson

Ingredients

  • 3 ounces gin (Beefeater, Tanqueray, or Bombay Sapphire--something around 94 proof)
  • ½ ounce Noilly Prat dry white vermouth
  • 8 to 10 ice cubes (cracked or crushed ice chills faster than cubes)

Chill a martini glass in the freezer for at least 5 minutes. Pour 3 ounces gin and 1/2 ounce dry white vermouth into a stainless-steel cocktail shaker or a chilled tumbler. Place ice cubes in the shaker or tumbler, stir vigorously for about 20 seconds with a long-handled spoon, and strain into th...

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Variations on Martini

  • Martini
    • 1 tablespoon dry vermouth such as Noilly Prat
    • 6 tablespoons gin
    • 1 cup ice
    • 1 lemon
    • 3 green olives
    • 1 wooden skewer
  • Martini
    • 1.5 teaspoon(s) dry vermouth
    • Ice
    • 3 ounce(s) gin
    • 2 green olives
  • Martini
    • 1 lemon twist or 1 pimiento-stuffed olive
    • 1/2 teaspoon dry vermouth
    • 3 ounces gin
  • Martini
    • Ice
    • 1 ounce(s) dry vermouth
    • 1 lemon twist
    • 3 ounce(s) gin
  • Martini
    • 2 or 4 pimiento-stuffed olives
    • 1 tablespoon sweet vermouth
    • 1/4 cup dry gin, chilled
    • 2 swizzle sticks
  • Martini
    • 1 ounce(s) dry vermouth
    • 2 dash(es) of orange bitters
    • 1 lemon twist or 1 green olive
    • Ice
    • 3 ounce(s) gin
  • Martini
    • 1 pimiento-stuffed olive
    • 2 1/2 tablespoons dry white vermouth
    • Finely crushed ice
    • 2/3 cup gin


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