The Martini Variations

Poetics, aesthetics, and the personal when it comes to gin, vermouth, and bitters.

When you write about drinks for a living, the people in your life eventually ask you to teach them how to make a martini. Sometimes they ask you to show them a “real martini” or a “proper martini” or a “gin martini.” But it all means the same thing. Even though your nerdy friends on Drinks Twitter spend a lot of time talking about Negroni variations, th…