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Dry Martini No. 2

Name: Dry Martini No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Old Tom gin; 7.5 ml Dry vermouth; 5 ml Oloroso sherry; 1 dash Orange bitters; 1 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño Sherry
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
1 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Verdot Small Martini Glass 12.5cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered olives.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered olives.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Dry Martini No. 2 contains 149 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
29.51% alc./vol. (59.02° proof)
22.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth, Oloroso sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from the sherry-influenced "Martini Cocktail No. 2" in the 1898 book Cocktails... How To Make Them, but with the dry vermouth stipulated in the Marguerite cocktail above in the book. The split base of gins also reflects the combination of two recipes.

Marguerite Cocktail.
Bitters
Plymouth Gin
French Vermouth
HALF a mixing-glass full of fine ice, three dashes of orange bitters, one-half jigger of Plymouth gin, one-half jigger of French Vermouth. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass. Place an olive in the bottom of glass and serve.

Martini Cocktail – No. 1.
Bitters
Gin
Italian Vermouth
Lemon peel
HALF a mixing-glass full of fine ice, three dashes orange bitters, on-half jigger Tom gin, one-half jigger Italian vermouth, a piece lemon peel. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass.

Martini Cocktail – No. 2.
Bitters
Tom Gin
Italian Vermouth
Sherry
Lemon peel
Fill a mixing-glass full of fine ice. Add two dashes Boker's bitters, on-half jigger Tom gin, one-half jigger Italian vermouth, half a teaspoon-ful sherry, piece of lemon peel. Mix, and strain into cocktail-glass.
Jacob Abraham Grohusko, Jack's Manual, 1910

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Review

My preferred five-to-one Dry Martini with a split base of gins and a splash of sherry.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 18.5 cocktails
$33.99 $1.84 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Hayman's Old Tom Gin 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$31.99 $0.97 per cocktail Hayman's Old Tom Gin image

Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$25.99 $0.17 per cocktail Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
$13.99 $0.04 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

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Comments & Discussion

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Robert Spain 12w

Almost as good as the "original" one. It's really worth trying if you have a bottle of oloroso sherry.

Husejin Dervic 1y

Sublime as savory martinis go. I had to substitute the Strucchi Dry Vermouth with Grassotti
Vermouth di Torino Dry since Strucchi is hard to find in the US. Still a wonderfully complex and enjoyable drink.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

This really is exceptional: five stars. Didn’t have open Sherry so bumped up the dry vermouth. So like the familiar dry martini, and yet not… a genuine privilege to taste such excellence.

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