Is it the variations inherent between gin and vermouth — wet, dry, 50-50, martini on the rocks — and the range of flavors imaginable in its spareness that make this cocktail so susceptible to ...

This Martini was created for the opening menu at Hollywood hotspot, The Benjamin Hollywood, and is a classic, dry Martini made with Monkey 47 Gin, Noilly Prat Original Dry vermouth, and a lemon twist.

Preparation. Fill a glass beaker or cocktail shaker with ice and pour in ½ oz. dry vermouth.Stir 15 seconds, then let sit 30 seconds. Stir again, then strain out and discard vermouth.

By 1952, the extra-dry martini had become what C.B. Palmer writing in The New York Times Magazine, called “a mass madness, a cult, a frenzy, a body of folklore, a mystique, an expertise of a ...

If you ask for a dry vodka martini on the other hand, your drink will only contain about ¼ to ½ ounce of dry vermouth -- ...