When was martini invented

The miner liked the drink and ordered for the house. After he woke up, some time later, he proceeded on to San Francisco where he immediately went to a prominent bar and ordered a "Martinez Special".

The bartender of course had never heard of the drink and asked the miner how it was made and where he had heard of the drink. The miner said that the drink was made with one part of very dry Sauterne wine and three parts of Gin, stir with ice and finish with an olive and was made in Martinez.

The bartender tried the drink himself and liked it and of course had his friends drink it. Over a period of years the name Martinez try to say it repeatedly became Martini. If you just want Grey Goose served up, order it up.

Alcohol is attached to the human condition. To that point, I love dropping a cocktail with history and a story, such as the producers who make the spirit. One thing from both Smith and Kudra is clear: The Martini needs to be made with very cold gin. Everything [all of your ingredients] has to be absolutely perfect. Olives should be fresh. One of my biggest pet peeves is when [bartenders] keep them out of the fridge.

If left out all day, the olives dissipate their oils into the drink. For example, a lemon twist will bring out the lemon in the gin. I use scientific aspects and cooking behind my bar. In celebration, he asked for the house special, but the bartender was out of the ingredients, so he threw something better together called "the Martinez special.

The name, through the years, eventually morphed to the "Martini. It would take several decades of global war and the gangland violence of prohibition to turn the Martini into the drink we know today. Prior to prohibition, Americans preferred whiskey to gin.

But you have to age whiskey; gin requires no such care. Bootleggers were often only a few steps ahead of the authorities, so they didn't have time to put their booze into barrels and wait around for a few years. Instead, they made it quickly and poorly in secret distilleries.

It was often basically poison, and a bad batch could blind or kill the drinker. To make the booze palatable, partiers in the 20s would cut it with other ingredients. The most popular cocktail to arise out of this mess was a heavy-on-vermouth Martini.

At that point, the Martini's highest quality ingredient was vermouth. When prohibition ended, gin started getting better, and the Martini began to dry out. In return, a court in Martinez overturned this decision. Rockefeller, as the place of origin of the dry martini, in the early twentieth century.

It seems safe to say the drink was invented in the middle to late nineteenth century, but exactly who invented the martini is likely to remain the stuff of legend.