Vodka, stirred
Vodka Martini
Barline 2,h,cl
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 2 oz Vodka
- 1/2 oz Dry vermouth
Stir with ice until cold, then strain.
Coupe, lemon twist.
Taste
Two ounces of vodka, half an ounce of dry vermouth. Four to one; the wine is in the drink. Stirred, coupe, lemon twist. Cold, grape.
History
A vodka Martini prints in a 1935 Smirnoff pamphlet at three parts vodka to one of French vermouth, with lemon peel in the mixing glass. Lucius Beebe puts two versions in The Stork Club Bar Book in 1946. Ted Saucier, in the 1951 Bottoms Up, credits photographer Jerome Zerbe with a four-to-one Vodkatini and a lemon twist. John G. Martin at Heublein spent the 1940s and 1950s selling Smirnoff as a mixer. The measure here is two ounces of vodka to half an ounce of dry vermouth, stirred, coupe, lemon.
Same shape, other bottles
The Martini family, with the bottle that changed.
- Dirty Martinigin for vodka
- Corpse Reviver No. 1cognac, apple brandy, and sweet vermouth for vodka and dry vermouth
- Fanciullibourbon and sweet vermouth for vodka and dry vermouth
- Red Hookrye and sweet vermouth for vodka and dry vermouth
- Yacht Clublight rum and sweet vermouth for vodka and dry vermouth
- Bensonhurstrye for vodka
This is one drink on my home bar's menu. Tick the bottles you own and the menu lists which of all 185 drinks they pour.