Modern American Drinks by George J. Kappeler (1895, p.32) — George J. Kappeler 1895
| 0.33 quart | Old Tom gin — Tom gin | base |
| 1 jigger | orange bitters — orange bitters | bitter |
| 0.33 quart | water — water | dilution |
| 0.33 quart | sweet vermouth — Italian vermouth | modifier |
- Combine the Tom gin, Italian vermouth, water, and orange bitters.
- Mix well and bottle.
- Nose
- Sweet gin botanicals and vermouth herbs lead with orange bitters in support.
- Palate
- This is recognisably Martini territory, but still sweeter and broader than later dry forms, and the bottling turns it into a service system rather than a purely à la minute drink.
- Finish
- The finish is herbal, orange-toned, and softly sweet.
- Summary
- A bottled pre-dry Martini showing both codification and professional batching.
Kappeler's bottled Martini is an important signal that vermouth-centred cocktails had become stable enough to batch in advance. It also reminds us that the Martini of this era is still a sweet-vermouth and orange-bitters drink.
The inclusion of added water means the bottle is intended to pour ready for cold service rather than await significant table-side or bar-side dilution.
Compared with Bottled Tom Gin Cocktail, this makes clear how the Martini line had already separated itself from the generic gin cocktail by the mid-1890s.