Vermouth
Jersey Lightning
The Jersey Lightning is so easy and so excellent. Whatever you call it, a manhattan simply made with apple brandy is a wonderful thing.
By Al Sotack
Kensington
The Kensington cocktail is a riff on the perfect manhattan, made with bourbon, sweet and dry vermouth, and a spoonful of bitter orange marmalade.
By Al Sotack
Cowboy Killer
The Cowboy Killer is a slightly smoky scotch-tinged riff on the Brooklyn cocktail from bartender Colin Shearn.
By Al Sotack
Brooklyn
The Brooklyn cocktail is an original riff on the manhattan that sparked many modern variations.
By Al Sotack
Palomar Americano
Although the Americano cocktail and the caffeinated drink are two completely different things, this beverage combines the two.
By Jordan Hughes
Clover Club
While the Clover Club cocktail may have originated in the 1890s at the Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, where the social organization that lends the drinks its name would carouse, it’s very much a drink of the 20th century. It was then that the famously pink drink became a cultural phenomenon beyond a small set of Philly-area lawyers and business folk. It arrived in New York perhaps thanks to hotelier George Boldt, who operated both the Bellevue and the new Waldorf-Astoria. His other culinary cla.…
By Al Sotack
Coffee Americano
Enjoy this coffee cocktail as a pick-me-up, a low-alcohol refresher, or on either end of a big meal.
By Brian W. Jones
Sherry and Vermouth
This two-ingredient cocktail is best served over a nice, large chunk of ice.
By Natasha David
Love Language
This refreshing summer cocktail is finished with a bright and briny pickled green tomato.
By Natasha David
Negroni
The classic negroni is an anytime cocktail. With equal parts gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth, the Italian aperitivo is bittersweet, herbal, and a cinch to mix.
By Eben Freeman
Americano
The Americano cocktail is a classic Italian drink that dates back to Milan’s Caffè Camparino in the 1860s, where it was known as the Milano-Torino.
By Kara Newman
Manhattan
The Manhattan is a classic cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth.
By The Epicurious Test Kitchen
Red Hook
The Manhattan/Brooklyn cocktail riff that birthed a dozen others, Vincenzo Errico’s Red Hook was first served at the original Milk & Honey, the influential bar in New York.
By Robert Simonson
Aperitif Scorpion Bowls
Scorpion bowls are heavily boozed, sugared, and communally shared. These updated Apéritif Scorpion Bowls keep the fun and ditch the sting.
By Rebekah Peppler
Bamboo Cocktail
Mix up this sherry and vermouth cocktails as an individual drink on the rocks, or stirred over ice and strained if you can be bothered.
By Kate Hawkings
Arancio Americano
I created this sparkling cocktail for the menu at Keith McNally’s Morandi Italian restaurant.
By Dale DeGroff
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How to Use Up Your Dry Vermouth
The bottle's not going to drink itself. But you don't have to commit to a dozen martinis.
By Maggie Hoffman
Nurse
I dubbed this aperitif the Nurse thanks to its restorative quality for a hangover I woke up with after visiting Noilly Prat’s production facility in Marseillan, France in 2015.
By Jim Meehan