How to make a Classic Dry Martini - in 90 seconds!

Ingredients:
5ml (1 barspoon/ 1/6oz) chilled Dolin Dry vermouth
60ml (2oz) freezer chilled Gin Mare (Tanqueray or Plymouth gins would suit too) – or if vodka is your preference, perhaps try Grey Goose.

You also need:
An icy cold mixing glass
A chilled Martini glass
And good quality ice.
Olives on a skewer.

Method:
Add your vermouth & gin to the mixing glass.
Fill with as much ice as you can.
Stir until very cold & diluted to your preferred taste.
Strain in to an icy cold glass using your julep strainer.

Finish with the classic olive (or 3) on a skewer.

So now you know!

Stay tuned for more martini videos coming soon.

[irpacynot]

Had one with my wife yesterday for the first time in my life. Thought it would taste like shoe polish, but it ended up being the most delicious alcoholic beverage I'd ever tasted.

[curtisbyo]

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[Brad-icbp]

Classic and classy, and best of all easy to make.

[SteveAbrahall]

Nice, but I prefer mine shaken not stirred as then you get the silver bullet effect when you pour. And possibly less H20 which is a good thing to avoid in a Martini.

And I can't resist the oppertunity to mention the poem!

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”

Dorothy Parker

[zardoz_ii]

Nice. Prefer mine not quite so dry. But I have made them like this, and even just using the Vermouth as a rinse. Just use a good quality Gin, and a good Vermouth and it's all good.
Now for a dirty martini.

[justinchipman]

I just made my first ever Martini. I used a locally distilled Gin (Leopold Bros. Small Batch) and some dry vermouth. I didn't want to go to the store for any olives, but I like the taste of the gin, so I had it without. I could have gone with a twist. It was arctic cold and delicious on this 80-degree evening. (26 C)

[johndelarue]

Enjoyable and informative, thank you, also a good excuse for buying a bottle of Gin Mare 🍸 👍

[DrinkInDigital]

Extra points for one of, if not THE best Mediterranean style gin!

[little_billy]

Not a gin drinker, I will give it a try

[rrssna]

Informative, but have always enjoyed my Martinis wet, two to one ratio, classic, and this is what I like. I have never understood (or my palate has never understood) dry Martinis, but to each her own.

[sundownerjames]

Just subscribed, looks like a good site !

[charlesolson]

I likes me some dry martinis, but when I look at a 12:1 ratio, I'm reminded of a friend of mine's remark that "that's for people who don't want to admit to themselves that they'd just like a glass of gin".

[abekdash]

got it the first time, but watching a third time now just because of the accent 😇

[mattcero]

Nice and I'm glad you went with gin. Now put another shrimp on the "Bobby"!

[zir]

why fill up the stirglass completely full with ice, if you add the ingredient first anyways? for the 3 seconds pour out time? sounds quite a waste of icecubes to me. Sure chilling the martini glass with icecubes makes more sense to me.

Also if the 3 seconds would be so important, why not add the alcohol after you putin the ice, to add an 2 seconds pour in time with the ice?

[etownrule]

Still struggle to understand this cocktail. What is the difference with drinking diluted Gin?

[trimbaker]

I used to drive a yacht for a fellow named Chad Bowls. He liked a martini or two. He insisted that I buy the giant olives and pick the pimentos out. He said if he were choking on an olive, he could breathe through the hole. Mr. Bowls would come up to the bridge and ask me " say, ole boy, how about a martini ?" to which I would reply, oh no Mr. Bowls, I have to drive the yacht... and he would say politely, no, ole boy, I was asking you, to make me, a martini... this would happen often... : )

[lordsauron]

Why do you use so much ice when stirring? Is there an actual reason I don't know yet? Thank you! 😃

[peterbarclay]

A professional bartender actually demonstrated the difference between a shaken and stirred Martini . A BIG DIFFERENCE IN TASTE . BOND IS CORRECT>

[cyber]

So, help me out. It’s a total of a little more than 2oz of alcohol. Yet, the glass is almost full. The rest is melted ice?