Name: Semi-Dry Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Gin; 12.5 ml Bianco/blanco vermouth; 12.5 ml Dry vermouth; 1 dash Orange bitters

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

For us this is a dry Martini. As we understand it, the opposite of dry (where the spirit is to the fore) is wet (not sweet), where the Vermouth, if not necessarily to the fore, is nonetheless assertive. We prefer our Martinis wet and with a zephyr of sweetness.

Andre Derailleur Premium Member 40w

True. Even the “Review” description says it is a Dry Martini (3:1 ratio), so its’ name is a bit misleading. My favourite ratio is 2:1 which this guide calls wet. I did like the rarest touch of sweetness the Bianco brings to this, which is a bit like my favourite the gin blossom martini.
Andrew Duncan

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 40w

Well, all but two of our favourite Martini recipes conform to the 2:1 ratio. We make an exception for the Marsala Martini and the Left Bank Martini (but even those, we would argue, tend much more towards wet than dry). And all but three include either Vermouth Bianco or Americano Bianco; but the Marsala Martini has sweet notes from the Amaretto and the Left Bank Martini has them from the Elderflower Liqueur (and a couple of drops of Absinthe, which we add); and with the Hawkeye Martini we alter the recipe by splitting the Vermouth 2/3 dry and 1/3 bianco. But of course we hesitate to say that the dry Martini is one of the least inspired cocktail recipes of all time.

2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin (from freezer)
⁵⁄₁₂ fl oz	Strucchi Bianco Vermouth (chilled)
⁵⁄₁₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth (chilled)
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura (optional)

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