Dirty Vermouth Martini

Name: Dirty Vermouth Martini
Yield: Makes 2 cocktails
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 8 to 10 green olives (I like picholines); 8 to 10 green olives (I like picholines); 5 ounces (150 ml) London Dry–style gin; 1 ounce (30 ml) olive juice; 1½ ounces (45 ml) dry vermouth

Preparation info

Makes
2
cocktails

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Getaway

By Renee Erickson

Published 2021

About

A big chair and a small, icy cocktail: That’s luxury, and one reason I keep coming back to the bar at the Zetter Townhouse Clerkenwell. I really like their tiny, cold, cold, cold martinis with a generous share of vermouth in the gin. My version here has some olive juice tipped in and several olives—try picholines.

Ingredients

8 to 10 green olives (I like picholines)
5 ounces (150 ml) London Dry–style gin

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegan
Gluten-free
London
Drinks

Method

Fill two stemmed cocktail glasses with ice while you prepare the cocktails.

Load as many olives as can fit onto two cocktail picks. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the gin, olive juice, and dry vermouth. Stir for a while, say a minute, until the spirits are frigid.

Pour the ice out of the cocktail glasses, strain the martinis into the glasses, and garnish with the