Name: Old Martinique Special
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 30 ml Dry vermouth; 2.5 ml Orange Curaçao

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 fl oz

Strucchi Dry Vermouth

¹⁄₁₂ fl oz

Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Old Martinique Special contains 175 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
26.49% alc./vol. (52.98° proof)
24.6 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Comments & Discussion

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Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 32w

Reduced the gin dilution to 15ml (maybe) of vermouth but still really really impressed by this - basically - slightly orangey martini.

John Hinojos Premium Member 1y

Had this cocktail again, but with a slight modification. Lowered by vermouth by 1/4 and used blue Curacao. Cocktail sightly more dry with a interesting ice aqua blue colour. The gin flavour was a bit more prominent.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 2y

Looking at these specs, I couldn't see why one would measure that small amount of Curacao. I opted to give the glass (Nick & Nora) a heavy rinse of Pierre Ferrand. My St. George Terroir really sticks out in this. I think I would've preferred a gin more spicy and herbal. At any rate, this turned out good with what I used. Just enough orange character. I think it's growing on me.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

As with most martini cocktails, the quality of your ingredients will dramatically impact the final flavour. We used a Southern California local gin from the lower Mojave desert. It has light citrus hints which pared excellently with the dry curacao. Perfect and well worth a try. Into my favourites.