The Bijou cocktail is a bold and boozy jewel that we love drinking all year long but especially during the holidays. The ...
When it comes to making (or shaking) a good martini, there are endless factors that affect quality — gin vs. vodka, measurement amounts of dry vermouth, type of olives, addition of olive brine, the ...
Make perfectly chilled Freezer Martinis with gin, dry vermouth, and a touch of orange bitters. Expert Bartender Charlotte Voisey shares tips for effortless batching at home.
Somewhere deep in the recesses of your kitchen liquor cabinet probably sits a bottle of dry vermouth. You know it’s there, but you really have no idea how long it’s been there. Maybe your uncle or a ...
What if you replaced gin in a classic martini with luxurious Midleton Very Rare? Irish Distillers presents 4 festive ...
The Martinez is the missing link. The halfway point. It is both stylistically and chronologically a middle child, a cocktail that falls comfortably into the category of “forgotten classic,” which is ...
The dry martini is one of the simplest cocktail recipes in existence. Of course, it now has endless variations — many of them quite good. But that essential recipe is very basic. It’s a mix of dry gin ...
Actor and theater producer Sir Charles Hawtrey needed some magic when he wandered into the American Bar at London’s Savoy Hotel in the early 1920s, looking for a drink. “Coley,” he said, “I’m half ...
Inspired by the flavors of a dirty martini, this savory quiche combines a creamy egg filling with Fontina, Gorgonzola Dolce, and Castelvetrano olives soaked in a mix of gin and vermouth, all inside a ...
Vermouth is one of the unsung heroes of the cocktail world. Without it, there’s no Manhattan, Martini, or Negroni. Yet for too long, vermouth was relegated to a bit player. That has changed over the ...