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I like both spirit-forward cocktails and gin, so although the original recipe calls for equal parts gin and dry vermouth, I previously opted for two-parts...
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Caspian Berggren’s Avatar Caspian Berggren
27th January at 19:00
Did you try it with equal parts gin and vermouth as per the original recipe? I personally found that to be a lot better, with the Benedictine carrying the vermouth and orange bitters forward. It's still basically a riff on a wet martini but slightly different.
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Justin Aniello’s Avatar Justin Aniello
4th February at 01:52
My wife and I had done a side by side for a few different gin-vermouth-Benedictine cocktails and for our tastes we found the higher the gin ratio the happier we were (The London Gypsy with no vermouth won out) but they all also had a larger ratio of Benedictine than this one. I blame it on our martini bias getting drier year by year.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
29th January at 11:45
Thanks to your comment, I revisited this cocktail and have amended to equal parts. Many thanks.
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