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OriginsThere is a beauty in MARTINI & ROSSI® like no other drink. A true Italian icon created by over 140 years of dedication and passion. Our story begins with our Roman ancestors who perfected the ancient art of blending wine with Mediterranean herbs. Over time the northern Italian region of Piedmont became the centre of this craft: The Alps and fertile soils a rich source of herbs and the cool climate providing light, delicate wines. Later in the Middle Ages, Italian merchants brought rare and exotic botanicals to the port of Genova creating more complex and distinct aromatic wines. Turin, the Capital of Piedmont blossomed in the 19th Century with ornate and stylish cafés that signaled the birth of the 'aperitivo' hour and its celebrated vermouth makers became protected by Royal Decree.
Martini (cocktail)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the vodka-based cocktail, see Vodka martini.
The Martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth and garnished with an olive. Over the years, the martini has become one of the best-known mixed alcoholic beverages. H. L. Mencken once called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet".[1] and E. B. White called it "the elixir of quietude".[2] The martini is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, along with many other favorite cocktails.
Preparation
IBA specified ingredients: 5.5 cl gin, 1.5 cl dry vermouth Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes. The ingredients are mixed then strained and served "straight up" (without ice) in a chilled cocktail glass and garnished with either a green olive or a twist of lemon (a strip of the peel, usually squeezed or twisted to express volatile oils onto the surface of the drink). Although there are many variations, in modern practice the standard martini is a mix of gin coupled with dry vermouth usually in a five-to-one ratio. Shaker mixing is common due to influences of popular culture, notably the fictional spy James Bond, who always asked for his vodka Martini to be "shaken, not stirred". However, shaking has a long history. Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book (1930) prescribes shaking for all its martini recipes. Noel Coward suggested that a perfect martini should be made by "filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy", meaning the less vermouth added to the gin the better the resulting drink.[citation needed] In a Dry Martini, the dryness refers to the amount of Vermouth used in the drink,[3] and a very dry Martini refers to a Martini with little or no Vermouth. Martini origins and mixologyThe accepted origin of the Martini begins in San Francisco in 1862. A cocktail, named after the nearby town of Martinez, was served at the Occidental Hotel. People drank at the hotel before taking the evening ferry to Martinez across the bay. Another less-accepted theory states the origin of the martini to be at the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City in 1911. According to this theory, the bartender who created it was named Martini.[4] The original cocktail consisted of two ounces of Italian Martini & Rossi sweet vermouth, one ounce Old Tom sweet gin, two dashes maraschino liquor, one dash bitters, shaken, and served with a twist of lemon. By the end of the 19th century, the martini had morphed into a simpler form: two dashes of Orange bitters, mixed with half a jigger of dry French vermouth and half a jigger of dry English gin, stirred and served with an olive. But it was Prohibition and the relative ease of illegal gin manufacture that led to the martini's rise as the predominant cocktail of the mid 20th century. With the repeal of Prohibition, and the ready availability of quality gin, the drink became progressively dryer. In the 1970s and 80s, the martini came to be seen as old-fashioned and was replaced by more intricate cocktails and wine spritzers, but the mid-1990s saw a resurgence in the drink and an explosion of new versions. Some the newer versions (e.g., appletini, peach martini, chocolate martini), take their name not from the ingredients, but from the cocktail glass they share with the martini. Cultural ReferencesW. Somerset Maugham declared "martinis should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the molecules lie sensuously one on top of the other." James Bond ordered his "shaken, not stirred", which is properly called a "Bradford"[5] (in an episode of The West Wing, President Josiah Bartlett remarks about James Bond's ordering technique, "James was ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it"). See also
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