Recipe courtesy of Bodega on Main
• 0.75 oz Tanqueray No. Ten Gin
• 0.75 oz Appleton Estate Reserve Blend
• 0.5 oz Aperol
• 0.5 oz Lime
• 0.5 oz Honey Ginger Syrup
• 2 dashes of Lavender Bitters
• 2 oz Cava
• Grapefruit Peel
La Colmena
50/50 Martini
Matthew Benevoli’s recipe uses his homemade White Chamomile Vermouth recipe
• 1.5 oz dry gin
• 1.5 oz White Chamomile Vermouth
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• Garnish: Lemon twist
Umami Martini
Replace murky olive brine with clear bitters in this evolution of the classic Dirty Martini.
• 1.5 oz gin
• 0.5 oz dry vermouth
• 2 dashes The Japanese Bitters Umami Bitters (or to taste)
• Garnish: cocktail olives or pickled mushroom (optional)
Spinnakers
Spinnakers small batch spirits are distilled in their seaside distillery. Made with 100% BC grown malted grains and water from their on-site artesian well.
308 Catherine Street, Victoria
250-386-2739
Spinnakers.com
PRODUCTS
• Spinnakers Classic Vodka
• Spinnakers London Dry Gin,
• Au Currant Crème de Cassis
• Chocoholic Crème de Cacao
• Cranberry Gin
• Pink Grapefruit Gin
Goldstream Distillery
This Vancouver Island distillery makes gin and vodka sourced from 100% Alberta wheat.
4A-4715 Trans-Canada Highway, Whippletree Junction, Duncan
250-213-8476
GoldstreamDistillery.com
PRODUCTS
• Goldstream Vodka
• Goldstream Gin
ClearCut Distilling Company
ClearCut Distilling Company takes the wine from their winery, SoundEnd Farm Winery, and distills it into spirits.
319 Sutil Road, Quadra Island
250-285-2257
SouthEnd.ca/Distillery
PRODUCTS
• Botanically Incorrect Gin
Indigenous World Spirits
The Indigenous-owned winery now also crafts vodka and gin infused with a combination of locally foraged botanicals, including rose hips, lavender, milk thistle, sorrel, borage and black lace elderberry—many of which were traditionally used as medicines by the local Indigenous Peoples.
2218 Horizon Dr., Kelowna
250-769-2824
IndigenousWorldWinery.com
PRODUCTS
• Vodka
• Gin
The Martini
The murky past of a clear favourite
Plenty a tall tale has crossed the polished oak; after all, bartenders like to dish out lively anecdotes along with the gin and spiced nuts. But when it comes to boozy myths, legends, outright lies and wholesale whoppers, “more cling to the Martini than any other cocktail.”
So writes Robert Simonson in his IACP-nominated book The Martini Cocktail (Ten Speed Press). He is fascinated by the outsize role the Martini has played in popular culture ever since its invention in 1849, or maybe it was the 1880s, or possibly 1906, who knows?
Turf Cocktail
The Turf Cocktail emerged around the same time as the Martini, and some believe it was an early version of it (not likely, but you never know).
• 1.5 oz Plymouth gin
• 1.5 oz dry vermouth, preferably Noilly Prat
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• 2 dashes maraschino liqueur
• 2 dashes absinthe
• Garnish: olive
Martini
The classic, as it has evolved over more than a century of opinionated drinking.
• 2.5 oz London dry gin
• 0.25 to 0.5 oz dry vermouth
• Garnish: lemon peel twist or olives