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martini cocktail: the most famous cocktail in the world


Identity Card

  • Type: short (IBA version)
  • Alcoholic level: alcoholic
  • Basic liqueur: Gin
  • Equipment: mixing glass
  • Glassware: cocktail glass
  • Garnish: a green olive
cocktail ingredients
  • 8/10 Gin
  • 2/10 Dry Vermouth

How to make it

Place some ice cubes in the mixing glass and add the two ingredients. Mix for few seconds with the bar spoon and pour into the glass. Decorate with a green olive. The cocktail is ready.

Variations and note

You can substitute the green olive squeezing a lemon rind over the surface; but you can also decide not to decorate this cocktail. Many people like it on the rocks. It's a pre dinner cocktail. This is the dry version. It was invented in 1912 by an Italian, Mr Martini from Arma di Taggia, who worked at Knickerbocker Hotel in New York.

 

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