Although popular before Bond, Ian Fleming's hero brought this straight up cocktail into the mainstream awareness lifting it to cult status. Shaking a Martini vs. Stirring will make it slightly colder, slightly more diluted and with an icy cloudiness.

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<strong>Bartender Tip:</strong>

If you use both Vodka &amp; Gin, you are turning the Martini into a Vesper

Intermediate

Alcohol

Bitter

Sour

Sweet

Dry Martini (Bond)

Use the zester to peel a large thin slice of lemon zest

Fruit Zester

Lemon zest

Prepare

Fill your martini glass and your mixing glass with cubed ice (lots!)

Ice Scoop

Martini glass

Shaker

Pour in your Vodka over the ice. Add your vermouth (the less vermouth, the drier the Martini)

Jigger

Vodka

Dry Vermouth

Add ingredients

Close the shaker and shake hard and fast for 7 seconds

Shake

Empty the ice in your martini glass back into the ice bucket. Place the julep strainer inside the mixing glass and pour the cocktail smoothly from the mixing glass to your martini glass.

Dry Martini (Bond)

The Dry Martini (Bond) Cocktail

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