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Indigo Martinez

From The Cocktail Notebook · Drinks · Martinis


Indigo Martinez

Carl Amoth's Bar

Makes 2 cocktails

A color-shifting Martinez—butterfly-pea gin and dry vermouth, a barspoon of nocino, twist to watch it turn.

Ingredients
  • 4 oz butterfly-pea gin (Empress 1908)
  • 1 ½ oz dry vermouth (Noilly Prat)
  • 2 barspoons nocino (Nux Alpina)
  • 4 dashes orange bitters (Regan's No. 6)
Method
  1. Stir with ice; strain into a coupe.
  2. Add a lemon twist tableside and watch the color shift toward violet.

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