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Quotes About Vermouth

a cocktail of three parts gin to one part lime juice, honey, vermouth, and apricot brandy in equal portions—a cocktail so delicious
~ David Remnick
Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
There is something about a martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow martini; I wish I had one at present. There is something about a martini Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth— I think that perhaps it's the gin.
~ Roger Angell
In the parlor I caught sight of my mother kneeling in front of a liquor cabinet, as though before an altar. "We could also use bourbon, sherry, vodka, and vermouth," she told her cell. I waved at her, since we hadn't seen each other in days. She saw me but ignored me completely. "Make it at least four Bulleits," she said to the phone. "Wait. Do they have the jumbo size?
~ Lydia Millet
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.
~ Bernard De Voto
There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
~ Ogden Nash
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
~ Steve Allen
Enhanced Sours call for a spirit, citrus juice, a sweetening agent of any kind, plus vermouth or any other aromatized or fortified wine.
~ Gary Regan
The majority of the drinks popular at the turn of the nineteenth century were, by and large, sweeter than they would become over the next twenty years. Something else happened, though, in the last decades of the 1800s. Something momentous. Something that left us with a range of drinks that must now be considered the capos of the cocktail family: Vermouth became popular among the cocktailian bartenders of America.
~ Gary Regan
There can be no doubt that vermouth changed the face of mixed drinks in the twentieth century. The Manhattan, the Martini, and the Rob Roy might be considered to be the Triple Crown of cocktails, and you can't make one of them without vermouth.
~ Gary Regan
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
~ Bernard DeVoto
Bond went into the lobby bar to gather his thoughts and ordered a vodka martini, explaining to the barman the best way to achieve the effect of vermouth without diluting the vodka too much. Ice in the shaker, add a slurp of vermouth, pour out the vermouth, add the vodka, shake well, strain into a chilled glass, add a slice of lemon peel, no pith.
~ William Boyd
Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I sense a wisp of wistful vermouth in your happiness martini.
~ Unknown
There is something about a Martini,Ere the dining and dancing begin,And to tell you the truth,It is not the vermouth—I think that perhaps it's the gin.
~ Ogden Nash
Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
~ P. J. O'Rourke