Category: Cocktails

Our third and final cocktail is the Sweet Martini. After the Martinez and before the Dry Martini we all know, was the original Martini, which used sweet vermouth.

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Our first cocktail is the Calvados Hot Toddy, a warming Calvados Hot Toddy, perfect for autumn or winter, created by Jose Torrella of The Barclay Bar, New York City, new York, USA.

With autumn nearing an end and winter soon to be upon us, this seemed the perfect warming cocktail for today.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Fino Martini, which is a simple Fino sherry martini.

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Our second cocktail is the Green Chartreuse Martini. A herbal martini combining dry gin, dry vermouth and Green Chartreuse.

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Our first cocktail is the LBV Martini, a tasty vodka martini cocktail using Late Bottled Vintage port and cranberry juice in lieu of vermouth.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Pétanque. Created by Andrew Bohrer from Mistral Kitchen in Seattle, USA, it uses Spanish Fino Sherry, Italian Ameretto, Creole Bitters from the USA, all under a French name which means “bowling”.

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Our second cocktail is the Dry Martini (Craddock). A Dry Martini from Harry Craddock (1945); it differs from Hugo R. Ensslin’s one by using different proportions and being shaken, not stirred).

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Our first cocktail is the Charente White Negroni. Not just a variant of the Negroni, but also of the White Negroni. It was created by Matthias Lataille and Simon Difford in 2014 at the Cabinet Room in London, England. Half the gin is replaced with Cognac, which gives the drink its name; Charente is in the Cognac region of France.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Dry Martini (Ensslin). A Dry Martini variant from Hugo R. Ensslin.

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