Name: Intimate Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Vodka; 20 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Dry vermouth; 3 dash Orange bitters

Intimate Martini
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Glass:

Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Ketel One Vodka
²⁄₃ oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth chilled
3 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

Sweet apricot dried and balanced by vermouth and bitters. Surprisingly complex and pleasant.

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History:

This cocktail featured in our first Difford's Guide book, published in 2001, and has been in every edition since. The recipe is from my own hand-written note for an "Intimate" cocktail in my copy of Mark Torre's 1984 The Bartender's Cherry, 2nd Edition.

I made many such notes in this, my first cocktail book, over the course of 1991, the year after I bought my liquor store and started developing my interest in cocktails. Sadly, I didn't record where I came across the "Intimate" it, just the recipe. However, this dates the cocktail's origins to before 1991.

These notes, along with recipes from the book, served as the basis for the database that drives this website. As with many of the other recipes, I've tweaked this one much over the decades.

INTIMATE
1 Vodka
1 Dry vermouth
1 Apricot brandy
3 dash Orange bitters
Shake Lemon peel & olive
Simon Difford, hand-written note, 1991

Nutrition:

One serving of Intimate Martini contains 194 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
27.05% alc./vol. (54.11° proof)
26 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.