Ingredients you'll need …
- 70ml Tanqueray (this can be changed to any gin or vodka of your choice)
- 12.5ml Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth
- Lemon Twist
- Cubed Ice
About the Dry Martini
The most iconic cocktail of them all
This is a drink that is all down to personal preferences, so that means doing a little bit of research to find out what is your favourite:
Spirit – Which vodka, gin or both (ala James Bond’s fav the ‘Vespa’). This is very important as each will have different characteristics to bring to the finished cocktail.
Vermouth – how much???
Garnish – olive, twist of lemon, cocktail onion
Instructions
Get yourself a clean Martini glass
This needs to be chilled, so simply fill it with ice and some water and put to one side
Measure out 12.5ml of your Vermouth and place into your Boston glass
Place your barspoon into this and then fill with cubed ice
Stir the ingredients together, as the whole idea is to coat the ice with the Vermouth
Once you feel the glass is nice and cold, then the Vermouth has done its job
Simply place a Hawthorn strainer into the top of the Boston glass and discard the Vermouth – remembering to keep the barspoon in there
If you want to make a Wet Martini, then don’t discard the Vermouth
Fill the Boston glass with 70ml of Tanqueray and top with a little more ice
Now continue to stir the ingredients until they are ice ice cold
Get your chilled glass and discard the ice & water, flicking to remove ever last drop – maybe over your mate if they have been bugging you to make this quicker
Put your Hawthorn strainer into the tin and using a fine strainer with the other hand, pour into your Martini glass
You will now need a zester, a cool piece of kit
Carefully holding the lemon in one hand, use the zester to create a nice long thin piece of lemon – remembering to do this over the glass, so that the oils linger over the top
Get your lemon twist and wrap around a straw, dropping it into the finished cocktail
Done :)
