Trump DC Hotel Will Make Martinis Great Again, If By Great You Mean Disgusting

[TygrBright]

6. Martinis have been disgusting for years.

Proof: the "Appletini"

Case closed.

A martini is gin (okay, I'll allow vodka, if you specify "VODKA martini&quot with a small amount of vermouth. How small the amount determines how "dry" a martini is.

In the case of a REALLY dry martini, you pour the gin while looking at the label on the vermouth bottle.

You pour it into a shaker with ice.

You shake it.

You pour it into a chilled glass.

If the customer insists, you add an olive.

THAT is a martini.

Anything else is some other kind of cocktail, attempting to grab some imagined rep from the "-tini" suffix.

But it's not a martini.

FWIW, when I was tending bar, we were taught to make martinis thusly: For a "martini" we poured a 1.5-oz jigger of gin into the shaker, and added vermouth from an eyedropper filled to a red line (it was probably about 3-5 ml.)

For a "dry" martini, we added no vermouth to the shaker, but when we took the glass from the chiller, we spritzed vermouth from an atomizer- ONE spritz- on the inside of the glass.

adamantly,
Bright