ColinRiggs

This Virgin Martini has been wowing friends of mine for years. 1. Take Glasses 2. Get out Gin/Vodka of Choice 3. Find Vermouth 4. Tip bottles over martini glass, capped. 5. Give Toast 'Here's looking at you, etc etc' 6. Drink. :) Colin Riggs sometimes drinks Virgin Martinis himself

You can get Junipero from Best Cellars the wine store on Connecticut in North Dupont, love the stuff for Martinis. If only I could find some good olives. :) Colin Riggs sorry wrong thread

I prefer my Martinis clean. Although I certainly don't mind the taste that olives sans brine add to the martini. The olives give me something to look forward to at the end of the drink. I thouroughly enjoy the taste of Gin soaked olives, or at least I used to. I am looking for a good Olive (or three), at the bottom of the glass, that happen to have laid down with the Gin. Olives being the reason I first started liking Martinis in the first place, I am disturbed that I have started making the Gin Martinis *without* the olives. Maybe I have just been consuming too many crappy olives, but I'd like to reclaim the favored status that olives once had. Colin Riggs they just make me feel so 0-live, sorry, couldn't help it.

Hello All, Having been the victim of store-brand Olives, and being somewhat picky, what is the best brand of Olives that I can get for my Gin (Tanq, sometimes Plymouth, sometimes Gordons) Martini? I find the type that they offer in the grocery, besides store brand, a little too hard/crunchy. Plus it seems like they focus on putting strange things inside the olives instead of actually getting a good olive. So what do you EG regulars choose when buying for your precious Martini? Thanks, Colin Riggs great forum btw, discovered Manhattans here.