Benchmark Resorts & Hotels and Personal Luxury Resorts & Hotels Celebrate “National Martini Day” June 19

June 9, 2016

Trend-Setting Bartenders Celebrate with Intoxicating New Takes on the King of Cocktails The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, June 2016 … "A dry Martini is not a hooker of gin!" So goes the legendary ad by the makers of Noilly Prat Vermouth, created by The New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. The ad was developed in the 1960s when the classic cocktail was in danger of becoming too dry to support even a whiff of vermouth. Few drinks have inspired such debate. Shaken or stirred? On the rocks or straight up? How much vermouth? Olives or onions as garnish? Or perhaps a lemon twist? Literary lions penned its praises, bootleggers brought it to ...