Posted on 06/19/2023 7:04:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
(Last Updated On: June 15, 2023)
WORLD MARTINI DAY
On June 19th, shake up some gin and vermouth with ice and add a lemon twist. It’s World Martini Day!
#WorldMartiniDay
This adult beverage has grown to become one of the best-known mixed drinks. A traditional or perfect Martini is made with equal parts gin and vermouth. For anyone who has never had a Martini, we have a list of terms to help get you started.
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Martini Lingo
Dirty – This Martini includes olive brine or juice from the olive jar.
Dry – The vermouth is decreased significantly in the Martini, and gin becomes the primary spirit. Extra dry tips the ratio even further.
Gibson – Instead of an olive, bartenders garnish the Martini with a pickled onion.
Shaken vs. Stirred – Most bartenders will tell you that the better Martini is stirred. Shaken Martinis tend to be inferior due to a couple of reasons – ice chips water down the drink, and shaking the Martini adds air to the cocktail. A stirred Martini results in a smoother, fuller experience.
Straight Up – This Martini may be either shaken or stirred, but it is strained and served without ice – the opposite of a Martini on the rocks.
Smoky or Burnt – Scotch whisky replaces the vermouth in this Martini. A twist of lemon garnishes the glass.
Wet – Where the dry Martini has less vermouth, this one has more.
With a Twist – The bartender adds a thin strip of citrus peel to the Martini as a garnish or in the drink.
Shaken, stirred, on the rocks, that’s what you need to know to order traditional Martinis.
James Bond, the fictional spy, sometimes asked for his vodka Martinis to be “shaken, not stirred.”
When the James Bond movies debuted in the late 1960s, the popularity of the Martini increased. In the later decades, clear spirits like vodka overtook aged spirits like bourbon in market share. However, in recent decades, a balancing act seems to be taking place.
Dirty martini – Martini with a splash of olive brine or olive juice and is typically garnished with an olive.
Over the years, the traditional Martini inspired a variety of other cocktails such as the Cosmopolitan, chocolatini, or appletini.
HOW TO OBSERVE WORLD MARTINI DAY
Order your favorite Martini or Martini-inspired cocktail. Martinis are an excellent cocktail to serve at a small gathering with hors d’oeuvres. Whether you serve a meat and cheese tray or go all out with shrimp, stuffed mushrooms and patè, make it a night to remember. (Remember always to drink responsibly and to designate a sober driver.)
Other fun ways to celebrate the day include:
Hosting a cocktail class to learn how to make classic cocktails.
Reading a book about the history of bartending.
Visiting a local cocktail bar with authentic turn of the 20th-century details.
Watching a documentary about the Martini or other famous cocktails.
Use #NationalMartiniDay to share on social media.
WORLD MARTINI DAY HISTORY
In 2012, Belevedere Vodka celebrated the first World Martini Day. The following year they raised the world’s largest toast to commemorate one of the savviest cocktails around.
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I am not fond of the taste of gin - like drinking a Christmas tree.
Although I had some house-made gin at a nice restaurant that was very very good (and didn’t taste too gin-y).
My daughter is fond of trendy chocolate martinis, one sip is enough for me, the flavors are too odd.
Old age would be great BUT...now that you have the time to enjoy things, all the things you used to enjoy you had to give up.
My old age consists of exercising and changing litter boxes.
Try one made with Sweet Vermouth in stead of regular Vermouth. It will nullify the juniper berry taste of the gin which a lot of people find distasteful ..............
I seem to remember that in Dr. No, the first Bond movie, 007 ordered his martini, stirred, not shaken. In every subsequent movie, he ordered shaken, not stirred.
Sigh...I don’t drink.
They can try any which way they can - in print, tv or movies - to say that that there’s such a thing as a ‘vodka martini.’
It doesn’t exist, nor has it ever. Period. Martini’s are made with gin only.
Just had a gin martini, up with olive, at lunch with son yesterday, a good appetite stimulus.
Let’s just hope they never turn it into a ‘gay’ drink...............Even though I don’t drink any more.............
"Gin martini" is redundant. The so-called "vodka martini" (bleeeeccchhhh!) would have (should have) died in obscurity if Smirnoff's had not become a sponsor of Cubby Broccoli's James Bond franchise. They paid to have Bond order a "vodka martini."
Dunno who the idiot was who came up with "shaken, not stirred," but one of the cardinal rules of mixology is never to bruise distilled spirits, which gin most certainly is one of.
"The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived."
— Bernard DeVoto
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