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A wet martini contains more vermouth; a 50-50 martini uses equal amounts of gin and vermouth. An upside-down or reverse martini has more vermouth than gin. [23] A dirty martini contains a splash of olive brine or olive juice and is typically garnished with an olive. [24] An extra dirty martini typically contains twice the amount of olive brine ...
Clemente Michel, Carlo Re, Carlo Agnelli and Eligio Baudino started the company in 1847, as a vermouth bottling plant in Pessione.A few years later Alessandro Martini joined the team, becoming the director in 1863 along with Teofilo Sola and Luigi Rossi (who was the inventor of a vermouth).
There are very few American inventions more American than the martini – a classic cocktail of gin and vermouth, garnished with lemon. ... It was invented in America in the 1870s or '80s when ...
There are several claims for the origin of the espresso martini. One of the more common claims [1] [2] is that it was created by Dick Bradsell in the late 1980s while at Fred's Club in London for a young lady – sometimes claimed to be Naomi Campbell or Kate Moss [dubious – discuss] – who asked for "something to wake me up, then fuck me up". [3]
A ruling in 1983 that the Martini was invented in San Francisco, and not nearby Martinez, California. However, the decision was later reversed by a Martinez Appellate Court that included California Appellate Court Justices Wakefield Taylor and Frank Bray, confirming that the Martini was invented in Martinez. [6]
Fleming's Bond calls it a "special martini", and though it lacks the vermouth that defined a martini in Fleming's day, it is sometimes called a Vesper martini. History [ edit ]
The Future Of The Manhattan. Why the Manhattan hasn't grown in popularity as much as the martini is a good question. Drink preference can have as much to do with personal taste as societal norms ...
Despite a popular story that says the martini glass was invented during Prohibition so that in the case of a raid on a speakeasy, the large rim allowed the drink to be easily disposed of, [2] the martini glass was formally introduced in the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a modernist take on the Champagne coupe, [6] and wasn't originally used as it is ...