{"id":17467,"date":"2017-04-09T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T11:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2017-04-09T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T11:03:48","slug":"the-ultimate-vodka-martini-at-dukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/the-ultimate-vodka-martini-at-dukes","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate vodka martini at Dukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dukesmartini-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"dukesmartini\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dukesmartini-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dukesmartini-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dukesmartini-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dukesmartini.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter Friday&#8217;s lunch at Berry Bros &amp; Rudd, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/author\/douglas-blyde\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Blyde<\/a> persuaded Katherine Houston and I that we needed a vodka martini at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeshotel.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dukes<\/a>. He was right. This was the best vodka martini possible, prepared by Alessandro Palazzi with his famous trolley service. Dukes, a grand old hotel in Mayfair, is described as the spiritual home of the martini. [Apparently, you are only allowed two of them.]<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro&#8217;s martini&#8217;s are very simple. Everything &#8211; the glass, the vodka, the vermouth &#8211; is kept in a freezer, to avoid the need for ice and the resulting dilution. He takes the glass and pours in a little vermouth. This is then swirled around, and dumped on the carpet (yes). He adds the vodka, in this case the fab Konik&#8217;s Tail. Then he takes rind of an amalfi lemon and twists it to release some oils, and then places it into the glass. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting drink is remarkable. It also contains a lot of vodka. You sip it slowly. Next time I go I will have the gin martini, made with No. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Friday&#8217;s lunch at Berry Bros &amp; Rudd, Douglas Blyde persuaded Katherine Houston and I that we needed a vodka martini at Dukes. He was right. This was the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17469,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions\/17469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}