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Vodka Martini in a martini glass

Vodka Martini

A smooth, clean martini made with vodka instead of gin.

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Ingredients

  • Vodka2.5 oz (75 ml)
  • Dry Vermouth0.5 oz (15 ml)
  • Lemon Twist1

How to make it

  1. Stir vodka and vermouth with ice.
  2. Strain into a chilled coupe.
  3. Garnish with a lemon twist or olive.

Glass: Martini

May contain: Gluten, Sulfites. Always check your own bottles.

History

The Vodka Martini is the mid-20th-century vodka-based descendant of the gin Martini, which rose with vodka's American boom in the 1950s and 60s. Its fame was sealed by Ian Fleming's James Bond, whose 'shaken, not stirred' order made it the very image of cool.

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