Name: Martini Special
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Vermouth - Rosso (sweet) vermouth; 1.25 ml Orange flower/blossom water; 2 Absinthe verte; 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in a

Martini glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

2 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet vermouth
1/24 fl oz	Orange flower/blossom water
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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Rutte Dry Gin, 70cl

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Review:

A 'Sweet' Martini [it's dry and aromatic] aromatised with orange flower water, absinthe and angostura bitters.

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book:
"Martini (Special) Cocktail. (6 people)
4 Glasses of Gin.
1½ Glasses Italian Vermouth.
1/3 Glass Orange-flower Water.
Before shaking, add a dash of Absinthe and one of two dashes of Angostura Bitters."

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