Martini

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James Bolt’s 50/50 Martini

James Bolt | Charleston

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Alex Jump’s 50/50 Martini

A textbook example of a 50/50 Martini.

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Mahoney

This not-quite-fifty-fifty Martini riff appears in The Nomad Cocktail Book, by bar director Leo Robitschek.

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Julie Reiner’s Freezer Martini

A blend of vermouths sets this rendition apart.

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James Bolt’s Martini

James Bolt's gin Martini recipe calls for a split-gin base, dry vermouth and finally, saline tincture, which gives the cocktail a briny edge.

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Eben Freeman’s Martini

Eben Freeman's gin Martini recipe calls on the Scottish Old Raj as its base spirit, used dry and sweet vermouths.

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Perfect

(adj.) A description for a vermouth cocktail in which the vermouth component is a mix of half-sweet and half-dry, usually applied to the Martini or the Manhattan.

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Dry

(adj.) A drink order, usually in reference to the contemporary recipe for dry martinis, that specifies dry vermouth to be mixed with gin in a ratio of 1:5, or 6.

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Fitty-Fitty Martini

Audrey Saunders' fashionably wet variation.

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Gibson

A good example of how powerful a garnish can be, with this cocktail the onion transforms a bitters-less Martini into an entirely new drink: the Gibson.