Dry Martini

IBA

Evolving through the late 19th and early 20th centuries from sweeter gin-based ancestors, the Dry Martini became the defining symbol of American sophistication and the subject of more debate than perhaps any other drink in history. The tension between gin's botanical complexity and dry vermouth's subtle herbal dryness makes it a cocktail of remarkable depth, despite — or because of — its extreme austerity.