Name: Churchill Martini
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Gin

Churchill Martini
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Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin from freezer

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Garnish: Fragata Green Olive

How to make:

STIR gin with ice while glancing at an unopened bottle of dry vermouth. Strain into chilled glass.

Review:

Gin served chilled and neat, other than with a little dilution courtesy of melting ice. A great man but not necessarily a great cocktail!

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History:

Legend has it that Sir Winston Churchill liked his Martinis served without the vermouth actually being added to the drink, just present in the same room. He is quoted as saying, "Glance at the vermouth bottle briefly while pouring the juniper distillate freely."
See History and evolution of the Martini cocktail.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
32.44% alc./vol. (32.44° proof)
24.3 grams of pure alcohol

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tom munger

29th July 2023 at 22:32

I read this on the internet, so you know it’s true: because French vermouth was not available in England during the Nazi regime in France during WWII, Churchill would turn south toward Paris and bow slightly to toast in recognition to the home of dry vermouth before quaffing his martini.

Michiel 261

13th April 2023 at 20:11

Technically you'd still need dry martini for this.

James Brooke

18th February 2023 at 01:30

I’m afraid that, whilst amusing, this story of how Churchill was supposed to have liked his Martinis is no true.
Have a read if this if you doubt me.
https://bevvy.co/articles/churchill-martini-myth/18582
He preferred about a 10ml of Scotch in a highball glass filled with ice and topped up to the brim with soda water. It’s what I call a “Highland Barley Water” and what his daughter called a “Pappa highball.”

Myxo Gastrid

30th September 2022 at 21:11

honestly? i don't even garnish OR stir it. just dry gin straight from the freezer in a chilled glass. not a cocktail i guess, but one of my favorite ways to appreciate gin