Name: Knickerbocker Martini
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 52.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Vermouth - Dry; 15 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 3/4 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Noilly Prat Extra Dry
1/2 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet vermouth
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Review:

Aromatic vermouth dominates but gin botanicals put up a spirited defence in this flavoursome 'medium' Martini.

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

This cocktail first appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. For the full story see our Knickerbocker Cocktails page.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Knickerbocker Martini contains 158 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
27.19% alc./vol. (54.38° proof)
24.5 grams of pure alcohol

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