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20180619

The CLASSIC GIN MARTINI

Classic GinMartini Cocktail Recipe

What is a classic martini recipe? Ask a thousand people, you'll get a thousand different versions of the original martini recipe. Make no mistake, the real, classic martini is a gin martini. I don't mean to offend you vodka proponents (aka Kangaroo or VODKA Martini fans) but gin was the spirit used in the original martini way back in 1911 and is still considered essential to a "real" martini.

Folks will argue until doomsday about ratios of gin to vermouth, whether to stir or shake, over or up, liquor brands and every other single part of the cocktail and it's mixing process. The martini is such a very personal drink it's an age old debate at the bar.  But there's one thing about the vermouth ... if there's no vermouth at all it's not a martini. It's just gin. Got it?


Once upon a time I was not a true martini lover.  I loved the glass but I was not ready for gin. That has changed, a lot, and I happen to adore gin and gin cocktails these days, including the martini.  Gin and martinis are both acquired tastes. I have acquired them. I have also played around with the recipe myself quite a bit and love Dirty Martinis, Smoky Dirty Martinis and hundreds of cocktails I have designated as "designer martinis", but if someone asks me for a martini with no additional provisos below is the cocktail they will get.

Gin Martini with Ingredients and Instructions

The Classic
GIN MARTINI

INGREDIENTS
5 Parts Bombay Sapphire Gin
1 Part Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth

Garnish:  1 or 3 Honking Big Green Olives with Pimento (never 2 olives 🫒, it's bad luck!)

Tools: Mixing Pitcher, Hawthorn Strainer

Glass: Martini/Cocktail, of course

DIRECTIONS
Chill the gin, chill the glass, chill the pitcher. The vermouth should already be in the fridge!
Fill a chilled mixing pitcher with filtered ice.
Pour in the gin.
Pour in the vermouth.
Stir 20 times.
Strain into your chilled glass.
Garnish with 3 honking green pimento olives.

VOICEOVER VIDEO WITH INGREDIENTS AND DIRECTIONS:


VARIATIONS ON THE MARTINI

50/50 MARTINI - equal parts gin and dry vermouth with a dash of orange bitters.

BURNT MARTINI - a splash of smoky scotch is added.

DIRTY MARTINI - Olive brine is added.

DRY MARTINI - less vermouth, typical ratio of 6 parts gin/1 part vermouth.

EXTRA DRY - there will only be a tiny splash of vermouth or the glass is washed in vermouth before pouring in cold gin.

FILTHY MARTINI - A Dirty Martini but caper brine and caperberry garnish instead of olive.

GIBSON - martini with an onion.

GIMLET - lime juice replaces the vermouth.

PERFECT MARTINI - both sweet and dry vermouth in equal ratios.

MARTINEZ - possibly the daddy of the modern martini?

SMOKY - scotch instead of gin.

SMOKY DIRTY - my dirty Martini with SMOKED olives!

SWEET or ORIGINAL MARTINI ‐ sweet vermouth replaces dry vermouth and a bit of simple syrup and orange bitters are added. 

TEQUILA MARTINI - tequila replaces the gin.

VESPER - NOT a martini, apologies to 007 and Ian Fleming, but NOPE.

VODKA MARTINEZ - just because I tried it out and it was pretty good. Also not a martini.

VODKA MARTINI aka Kangaroo - vodka instead of gin. Also not a "Martini".

WET MARTINI - More vermouth than normal, typical ratio of 3 part in/1 part Vermouth.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MARTINI WITHOUT VERMOUTH. IN THE INDUSTRY WE CALL THAT GIN.
 That. Is. All.

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Updated 9-2021
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20180608

The NEGRONI

NEGRONI Cocktail Recipe

“I think the Negroni is the perfect cocktail because it is three liquors that I don’t particularly like. I don’t like Campari, and I don’t like sweet vermouth and I don’t particularly love gin. But you put them together with that little bit of orange rind in a perfect setting… It’s just: It sets you up for dinner, in a way it makes you hungry, sands the edges off the afternoon. In an after dinner, it’s settling. It is both aperitif and digestive. It’s a rare drink that can do that.” 
~ Anthony Bourdain

Negroni Recipe with Ingredients and Instructions

The
NEGRONI

INGREDIENTS
Equal parts:
Campari
Gin
Sweet Vermouth

Garnish: Orange Twist or Slice

Glass: Old Fashioned

DIRECTIONS
Stir ingredients with ice in  a cocktail pitcher then strain into an ice filled Old Fashioned glass, garnish and serve.

VOICEOVER VIDEO WITH INGREDIENTS AND DIRECTIONS:

Negroni Week is Sept 14th - September  20th.
June 25th is Bourdain Day, Anthony Bourdain's Birthday,  If you plan to toast Mr. Bourdain on his birthday THIS is the cocktail you should be drinking.

🔸️🔸️🔸️🔸️

NEGRONI COCKTAIL PHOTO

Updated 9-2021
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20180606

The Sex And The City RUBY COCKTAIL Recipe



There are tons of Ruby Cocktail recipes floating around in cocktail land including, but not limited to:
1) a gin, grenadine and applejack recipe similar to the Prohibition era Pink Lady cocktail,
2) a rhubarb-infused vodka with simple syrup and fresh lime created by Vanessa Bortnick of Harry Denton's Starlight Room in San Francisco,
3) Tony Abou-Ganim's vodka, elderflower and Aperol version, and
4) The SATC Ruby.


The Sex and The City version of the Ruby Cocktail was created by the Florida Citrus Commission to boost sales of Florida grapefruit. To further encourage grapefruit sales the recipe was proposed to the creators of SATC as a replacement for the what had been the signature drink of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda, the Cosmopolitan. The producers liked the idea and the SATC Ruby made its debut in Season 4's Episode 12 "Just Say Yes". Eventually, the more widely recognized Cosmo made it back as the SATC signature drink in following episodes (as well as the first Sex And The City movie) and the Ruby went into the same sitcom oblivion as the flock of discarded SATC paramours.

It's really too bad The Ruby didn't stick around because I personally prefer the fresh ruby red grapefruit juice spiked with citrus vodka over the ubiquitous cranberry, vodka and lime Cosmopolitan.


The SATC
RUBY COCKTAIL

INGREDIENTS
6 Oz Fresh (Florida) Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice
3 Oz Citrus (Absolut Citron) Vodka

Garnish: Sugar Rim, Grapefruit Twist

Tools: Cocktail Shaker

Glass: Large (10 ounce) Martini/Cocktail

DIRECTIONS
Shake ingredients with ice, strain into the sugar rimmed, chilled glass then garnish with a grapefruit twist and serve.


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