oh once upon a time ian fleming wrote about a fictional british secret service agent called james bond bond james bond and his preference for how he wished his martini prepared shaken not stuck shaken not stirred which became the world famous catchphrase of the martini a martini shaken not stud for the gentleman vodka martini shaken not stirred but any mixologist will tell you that 007 has a rather philistine taste four no one should ever order a martini that way conventional wisdom dictates that only cocktails with juices dairy or egg whites should be shaken if the drink contains only spirits like a martini it should only be stirred to incorporate the ingredients but avoiding clouding their clarity shaking rather than stirring a martini also causes rapid movement of the ice in the shaker that melts more of the ice than gently stirring a shaken martini will be noticeably colder but will also cut its alcohol potency in almost half gizmodo ran a scientific experiment with a 40 vodka and found stirring the drink with ice only dropped it to 30 while shaking it dropped it to 22.5 so why then would james bond the world's most sophisticated martini drinker routinely order his cocktail shaken not stirred three measures of goldens one of the vodka half a measure of tina lily shake it over rice and then add a thin slice of lemon the simplest explanation is that the author did in fact use the line stirred not shaken to add yet another facet to bonds cool image but the movie producers decided that the line shaken not stirred sounded more catchy so it was adopted for the film thus creating a character with a good collection of sound bites but a slightly odd taste in drinks so the featured cocktail of the day is the martini first chill a martini glass then fill your mixing glass with frozen crystal ice chunks add 100 ml of your favorite vodka or gin in this case i will use the super premium multi-filtered multi-distilled extra strong sky 90. if you want your martini dirty which i do then add a bar spoon or two of olive brine which is the liquid in your olive jar stir well if you want it extra dry which i do then empty the ice from the martini glass being chilled and spray martini extra dry into the chilled martini glass and strain the stirred vodka with brine on the top add one queen green olive as garnish and there you have it a simple stylish strong elegant drink that will rock your world um cheers and see you at the bar