Dry Martini No. 3

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (9 ratings)

Photographed in an Urban Bar Verdot Small Martini Glass 12.5cl

Ingredients:
1 13 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
34 oz Hayman's Old Tom Gin
14 oz Strucchi Bianco Vermouth
16 oz Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
1 dash Orange Bitters by Angostura
1 drop Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of 3 skewered chilled Fragata Green Olives.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 9/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 8/10

Review:

My preferred five-to-one Dry Martini with a split base of gins, enriched with bianco vermouth and dried with a splash of fino sherry.

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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. The split base of gins is also also reflects the combination of the 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

Nutrition:

One serving of Dry Martini No. 3 contains 150 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.6 standard drinks
  • 29.09% alc./vol. (29.09° proof)
  • 21.9 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
15th November 2024 at 13:54
This is a seriously good martini, so familiar and yet with the unfamiliar twists of extra sweetnes and aroma, and creamy mouthful of the Old Tom. The interplay of gins, vermouth and sherry is superb.
Jonathan Goldthorpe’s Avatar Jonathan Goldthorpe
9th November 2024 at 15:40
So I subbed genever for Old Tom and palo cortado for fino and cocktail onions for olives but otherwise all the same ! Tastes nice and dry and a little saline.