Name: Simple and Elegant Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Vodka; 15 ml Dry vermouth; 1 dash Creole bitters

Simple & Elegant Martini
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Photographed in a Nude Bar/Giani Martini Glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin from freezer
¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka from freezer
¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth chilled
1 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist or Fragata Green Olive.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lemon zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish &/or adorn with skewered olive.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Just as the name promises. It's the Creole bitters that distinguish this Five to One Dry Martini apart.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2025 by Giorgio Bargiani to mark the launch of his Bar/Giani Collection in collaboration with Nude glassware.

Nutrition:

One serving of Simple & Elegant Martini contains 183 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
29.23% alc./vol. (29.23° proof)
26.4 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

9th May at 00:30

Made the cocktail as described and found the bitters needed upping. Added another dash and the bitters really shone through the cocktail. Since the Peychaud's bitters are from New Orleans, added a spritz of Absinthe on the top. Absinthe did not overpower the cocktail, my initial concern, put pull the herbal flavours out of the gin and bitters. Revised version on my favourites.

Ignacio Seligra

5th May at 17:48

Peychaud's imparts the nice pink color but nothing else, that I could perceive. Maybe other drinkers will tell the difference, but for me it was just another nice 5:1 dry martini with a slightly different color.

Peter Shaw

27th April at 06:19

Perfect texture (with Tanq 10 and vodka straight from the freezer) and the Peychauds adds a lovely colour and flavour that pushes it to exceptional

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson

26th April at 21:44

Not unpleasant, just underwhelming. Next time (there will be a next time) I shall skip the vodka, temper the vermouth and up the Peychaud. If that doesn't save it, nothing will.