Recipes

Barrel-Aged Gin Martini

Makes 1 cocktail

Swapping old gin for new in this twist on the classic gin martini

By Wayne Curtis

August/September 2017

Photo: Johnny Autry

Ingredients

    • 1 1/2 oz. barrel-aged gin

    • 3/4 oz. Dolin Blanc Vermouth de Chambéry

    • 3 dashes orange bitters

Preparation

  1. Stir all ingredients over ice; strain into coupe or martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.  

Recipe from drinks columnist and G&G contributor Wayne Curtis. 

Wayne Curtis is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and has written frequently about cocktails, spirits, travel, and history for many publications, including the Atlantic, the New York Times, Imbibe, Punch, the Daily Beast, Sunset, the Wall Street Journal, and Garden & Gun. He lives on the Gulf Coast.

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