28 July 2026
Original research
The Wet Martini Does Not Exist or A Brief History of a Dry Classic
The Martini's opposite of dry was always sweet, never wet. A referenced walk through cocktail history from the first definition of the cocktail in 1806 to the first published Dry Martini recipes, and why the wet Martini is a misnomer worth retiring.
Morten Kjaerulff