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Montana Club Martini

Name: Montana Club Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Old Tom gin; 20 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Orange bitters

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Ingredients
2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
²⁄₃ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Montana Club Martini contains 187 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
28.35% alc./vol. (56.69° proof)
27.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe thought to have been created by Julian Anderson, who, from 1893 to 1953, was the bartender at The Montana Club, a private club in Helena, Montana, USA. As this is the club's signature cocktail, over his 60-year tenure, he certainly mixed thousands of Montana Club Martinis and included the recipe in his self-published 1919 book Julian's Recipes.

Montana Club Cocktail
MARTNI COCKTAIL
(Use a Mixing Glass)
½ A glass of shaved ice;
2 Dashes of orange bitters;
1 Jigger Old Tom Gin;
¼ Jigger Italian Vermouth.
Stir with a spoon, strain it into a cocktail glass, squeeze a piece of lemon peel over the top and serve.
Julian Anderson, Julian's Recipes, 1919

Review

Expressed oils from a lemon zest twist are essential to the freshness of this beautifully rounded, old-tom gin-based Sweet Martini.

Variations/similar cocktails

Montana (Harry Johnson, 1900) with sloe gin, dry vermouth, anisette and Boker's bitters.
Montana (Hoffman House, 1905) with dry vermouth, anisette and Boker's bitters.
Montana Club (J.A. Grohusko, 1908) with brandy, dry vermouth, anisette and aromatic bitters.
Montana (Jacques Straub, 1913) with brandy, dry vermouth, ruby port, anisette and aromatic bitters.
Montana (Albert Stevens Crockett, 1931) with brandy, dry vermouth and ruby port.

Hayman's Old Tom Gin 750ml - makes 10 cocktails
$31.99 $3.20 per cocktail Hayman's Old Tom Gin image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$3.27 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 10 cocktails.
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Miguel Perales Premium Member 2y

I did 2 of the versions, the main one posted and the Sloe Gin (Harry Johnson) variant. Both were good, but I will say the Harry Johnson one had more depth of flavor and was preferred by me.

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