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[James Landau]

On Saturday, December 30, 2023 9:26 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote

>I don't think it has to be "main ingredient", more like
>"defining/establishing ingredient". If you google "gin-forward drinks",
>Negroni pops up and we all know that's exactly 1/3 gin.  But then again I
>also found a web site in which a negroni (with the same 1/3 gin, 1/3
>Campari, 1/3 vermouth ratio) is described as a Campari-forward drink, so I
>think it's partly pragmatic, based on what one might have been expecting or
>comparing it with.
We all know that a "dry martini" is gin (or vodka) with a vanishing amount of vermouth.  I think therefore that the Negroni with 1/3 gin and 1/3 vermouth must be that long-sought but never-publicized dring, a "wet martini".


James Landau
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