Hello everyone and welcome back for Season 4 of Lush Life - The classic Collection. We’ll be exploring classic cocktails  - who drank them, who makes them and a few modern twist on the genre. 

Things would get so boring if we didn’t change it up a little, so saying that I wanted to let you know the format has been “jujjed” slightly. 

Don’t be scared -  none of the good stuff is gone. You’re still going to hear from the greats of the cocktail world and still going to get your cocktail of the week.  You’ll just have to wait until the bitter end to discover who our next guest is and all the ways you can support Lush Life!

That being said - let’s get on with the show...

I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.

There could be no better way to begin a season of classics than by inviting Alessandro Palazzi to kick off Season 4. He defines classic in every sense of the word, but don’t think that makes him any less modern. 

With more than 800 gins on the market, vermouth production on the rise, and let’s not even get into vodka, fruity, shaken, or stirred. No one can really define how to make a classic martini at all any more

What I can tell you is from his second home at Dukes Bar, Alessandro has probably made more martinis than anyone in London, if not the world.  

Four years and many martinis ago, he was game enough to be Lush Life’s 3rd guest ever..and now he’s back -  the one and only Alessandro Palazzi! 

So we all know James Bond had his martini shaken not stirred.

It was also Winston Churchill’s signature beverage - icy cold and so dry he just bowed toward France instead of letting vermouth anywhere near his glass.

Julia Child liked it one part gin to 5 parts French vermouth  - maybe that’s why she is known as the French Chef. 

Everyone who has ever loved a martini had it a different way.  It may seem simple to make but as a wise bartender said once, “People mess up simple all the time.”

In that vein here is the simple Dukes Bar classic gin martini recipe and this week’s Cocktail of the Week.

Ingredients:

• 3 dashes dry vermouth
• 4 ounces gin, frozen
• lemon peel

Method:

Dash vermouth into a frozen martini glass & coat the glass. Pour in the gin. Do not stir! Garnish with a lemon peel.

You’ll find this recipe and loads more Martini recipes, plus all the cocktails of the week at ALushLifeManual.com, where you’ll also find all the ingredients in our shop. 

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Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation,” and always drink responsibly!

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