If you’re making martinis that contain nothing but gin, read on. You’ve been making vermouth mistakes!
Somewhere deep in the recesses of your kitchen liquor cabinet probably sits a bottle of dry vermouth. You know it’s there, but you really have no idea how long it’s been there. Maybe your uncle or a date wanted dry martinis, and you bought it because you confused dry gin with dry vermouth. Or maybe you knew exactly what you were doing and wanted actual vermouth in your martini, a rarity these days. Whatever the case, you opened it way back when and now, there it sits.
It doesn’t help that most people don’t refrigerate their vermouth. Even though modern vermouth is fortified with the addition of spirits, it’s not enough to prolong its lifespan significantly. Wine can last for about two months, if it is refrigerated, but lasting and being good are not the same thing. Now imagine something that has been opened, then stashed — unused and unrefrigerated — for three years.
There’s an obvious solution here: Refrigerate your dry vermouth and enjoy it in a timely fashion. Bartenders are starting to make all kinds of craft cocktails using dry vermouth, partly because several California producers are making much better tasting versions.
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