Bronx

BRONX

Introducing this cocktail with other words than the Wikipedia would be futile:

"The Bronx Cocktail is essentially a perfect martini with orange juice added."

Fair enough. So a "perfect" martini/manhattan/etc. is equal amounts of sweet AND dry vermouth in the drink. Excluding the cocktail garnish (one kumquat cut in half), here is the Bronx:

• 3 cl gin
• 1.5 cl sweet vermouth
• 1 cl dry vermouth
• 1.5 cl orange juice

Add everything in the cocktail shaker with ice, shake and strain into a chilled cocktail/martini glass. The kumquat decoration was wholly my idea, something yellow-ish and pretty to the side doesn't hurt this cocktail at all.

Unlike the dry martini, the sweet vermouth does not really work here. It has that Negroni/Americano - style bitterness which overpowers the rest of the cocktail. I could barely taste anything else than the sweet vermouth. This is definitely not one of my favorite cocktails. I'd rather have a dry martini instead.