Double Dirty Martini
What makes a martini dirty? Olive brine. What makes it double dirty? Unofficially, when twin olives stuffed with blue cheese are used to garnish a martini and vermouth and olive brine are combined in the cocktail. For the best martini, use the best gin, the best olives, and a high-quality blue cheese. Our go-to combination is Elena Gin, Jack Rudy Vermouth Olives, and Point Reyes Blue Cheese. Small-batch made in the Piedmont-based Vietti winery, Elena is a botanical gin that includes juniper berries, almonds, Langhe thyme, coriander seeds, black elderflower, Angelica, wild mint, chamomile, cassia bark, and the peel and flowers of organically-grown citrus fruits from the Ligurian hills bordering Piedmont. Jack Rudy packs unstuffed olives ripened in the California sunshine with a splash of vermouth and pinches of juniper and coriander. Award-winning Point Reyes Blue Cheese, an addictive, bold classic California blue cheese, is so divine stuffed into the olive hollows that you may wish to do as we do and serve extras in a bowl for noshing. The creamy and sweet, just-the-right-amount-of-tang taste comes from cows raised on a diet of organic grass and turns a martini happy hour into a gourmet event.
