'Wet Martini'
◇ 1.5oz Beefeater gin
◇ 1.5oz Bordiga Extra Dry Vermouth
◇ Stir equal parts gin and vermouth until cold and strain into a martini glass or on the rocks with lemon peel or olive garnish.
My wife, Jessica, and I use this wet martini cocktail recipe twice a week or so for restaurant quality cocktails on the couch. The gin provides the base for the cocktail, Beefeater being perticularly dry and having almost no floral aromatics. The Bordiga is lovely; It’s elegant with tons of high tone brightness and savory herbal qualities. A lemon rind garnish makes it refreshing and crisp, an olive makes it savory.
Once you pop the vermouth it will live happily in the fridge for a month or two so you can have martinis for weeks on end. You can get roughly 16 cocktails out of a bottle or Bordiga and Beefeater making the cheap gin/spendy Vermouth martini a world class 2 ingredient house cocktail.
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