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Nice, Light, balanced, AND dry. This is also another one that scales up very well. (Don't blame me, I just have a rather large coupe that just doesn't feel right when it's too empty.....)

I think @Malea is right - pineapple juice is key. I don't have the patience to press my own, but am lucky - my local grocery sells fresh cold pressed pineapple juice, and that flavor just shines through. Every element of this has its own presence, from the maraschino to the lemon, although the gin feels almost , , , ladylike, very restrained and proper. Beautifully complex and interesting. Nice drink.

Scaled up 1.5

2½ oz London Dry Gin
1¼ oz Dry Vermouth
¾ oz Pineapple Juice
½ oz Lemon Juice
¼ oz Maraschino Liqueur
Barspoon rich simple syrup (or omit entirely if you like it dry)

Fills the big coupe tout suite. Thanks, Difford's.

Had made a note to try this again with “better” pineapple juice. Had just enough of my freshly-squeezed juice left over after him indoors made an “outrageous” Tiki drink for himself to make this and am very glad I did. Delicious! Each ingredient shining through.

Astonishing dry cocktail which we liked after adapting it a bit. I used ¾ oz (store bought) pineapple juice because the maraschino overpowered it totally. It was not at all tropical 🌴.

I prefer it without the sugar syrup so you can fully appreciate the complexity of the different flavours riffing off each other

Revisiting. A bright, fresh no-nonsense classic. I can taste the gin, I can taste the vermouth, I can taste the pineapple and lemon. Slightly sweet from the Luxardo. Wonderful.

Distinctly dry but very delicious. Brilliant as an aperitif, although the drinker will have to like dry vermouth. I used good old Bombay sapphire and thought its sweetness worked well.

Very, very, very, very dry. The dry vermouth takes centre stage with gin and Maraschino following. The pineapple is a mere hum. Definitely for the truly discerning drinker. Give it to someone who's 'generic', and they'd hate it.

This did just not work for me. I found the combination of flavours too sour and spirit-forward.

Great aperitif. Had this to commemorate the start of Prohibition in the US. As the Holland House was the bar Craddock worked on that last day, decided on this. It is nicely dry with a slight hint of pineapple. Would recommend.