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Pour vodka and vermouth into mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into your martini glass and garnish.
For a perfect martini fill your martini glass with ice as you prepare your drink, then discard the ice before pouring.
Pour gin and vermouth into mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into your already chilled martini glass and garnish.
Rub the lemon twist around the rim of a chilled cocktail glass and discard the peel. Combine gin, vermouth, and olive brine in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice and shake well. Strain into chilled glass and garnish with olive.
With a touch of dry vermouth and Scotch.
Pour gin, vermouth and Scotch into mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into a martini glass and garnish.