Martini Gold

Everyone thinks that a Martini is the name of a wine because they sell it in bottles. But in fact, a martini is a cocktail and an aperitif. That is, a drink that is drunk before meals to stimulate appetite. Vermouth, which is part of the martini, is reputed to be a single aperitif. There is an option that the history of martini begins in the Californian town of Martinez, a similar drink with a similar name was popular in the late 1850s among gold prospectors.
The authorship of the martini is also attributed to the bartender D. Thomas, who, as witnesses say, invented this drink himself in the XIX century. The martini recipe is quite complicated, in order to mix it you need to have a lot of ingredients, so everyone prefers to drink it ready. Although many expensive bars continue to mix martinis by hand.
Shake all the ingredients well in a shaker, pour into glasses and drink.Usually an olive is put in a glass with a real martini. And they drink it through a straw. It's that simple. But recently, martinis have begun to be mixed with other drinks and products. You can drink a martini yourself, you can make various cocktails based on it, you can also dilute the martini with water or juice. By the way, drinking a martini diluted with water is considered a classic method. It is good to sip the drink not with food, but before, with light snacks. You can add juice or a slice of lemon to the cocktail, if it is not dry.