Can we settle something here?
Just putting a drink in a martini glass does not make it a martini.
Chocolate and vodka? Not a martini. Peach Schnapps and gin? Not a martini.
A martini is top shelf gin and dry vermouth, shaken and served with a citrus twist. Vodka if you must. Olives if you're hungry (but truly you need both olives and onions).
Oh, and...
A Perfect Martini is not a "great" martini. A perfect martini is neither wet nor dry: it uses equal parts sweet and dry vermouth
Wait! One more thing:
A dry martini still has vermouth in it. Otherwise you're just shaking gin over ice.
Ok? Don't pretend like it doesn't matter.
Don't make me come in there.
2 comments:
I have a hard time with a beverage that is distilled with the goal of being completely tasteless and odorless. That is why we have water.
So now Al B from Long Island is refuting my martini claims, but he does so in the sidebar of his Blog so I can't respond? Chickenshit, I say.
We DO agree on one thing here:
Bombay Sapphire. I finer gin is hard to find.
Vodka still blows.
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