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Sand Martin

Name: Sand Martin
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Gin; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 7.5 ml Chartreuse Green

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon or orange zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Sand Martin contains 155 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.59% alc./vol. (51.18° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

The Sand Martin first appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book, most probably as a misspelling of the Argentine "San Martin" version of the Martini. In his 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide, Stanley M. Jones includes recipes for the San Martin and Craddock's "Sand Martin".

SAND-MARTIN COCKTAIL.
1 Teaspoonful Green Chartreuse.
½ Italian Vermouth.
½ Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock , The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

SAND MARTIN
Cocktail Glass
Stir
1-1/4 oz gin
1 oz sweet vermouth
1/4 oz Green Chartreuse
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

Review

Complex and herbal with cleansing gin botanicals.

Variations/similar cocktails

Bijou (by Jamie Gordon)
Bijou (Difford's recipe)
Boozy Bijou

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Comments & Discussion

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Tea and sympathy 18w

The balance of Chartreuse seems perfect in this. I’m curious to see how the Bijou tastes in comparison. Then I’m off down a rabbit hole about a San Martin origin story.

Doug Bain Premium Member 19w

How is this not a Bijou variation?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 19w

Thanks for pointing out. I've added links to the three closest Bijou recipes.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 19w

It's not a Bijou variation for the simple reason that it preceded the Bijou, by quite a margin. And anyway, they're all Martinis if you care to climb down through the extensive and leafy branches of the family tree.

Loïc Berger 19w

Thanks for the info. I know both of them, but I didn't know that the Sand Martin was the older one. Do you know were it was first published?

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