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Don't Call it a Comeback...Martinis Still Reign Supreme

Robert Simonson

Martinis are back.

OK, that opener is ridiculous. Because the Martini never went away. More than any other cocktail, the Martini’s popularity over the past 135 years, since its first 1884 appearance in a cocktail book, has been steadfast. Even in the cocktail “dark ages” of the 1980s and ’90s, the Martini was the one cocktail even the most ignorant of drinkers had heard of, and the one cocktail the most incompetent of bartenders could make. 

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