Four of our Martini variations together: the best way to understand what a Martini can be when you stop treating it as a formula.
Various ABV
One 75ml serving of MARTINI FLIGHT contains 190 calories
Six Martinis. One hundred and twenty years of history.
The Martini Flight is a journey through cocktail history told in six drinks. From the Tuxedo, first recorded in 1900, to the Espresso Martini, London's own contribution to the canon.
Each bottle is pre-batched and ready to pour. No measuring, no fuss. Just cold glass, cold cocktail, good company.
Available as a Taster (six 50ml bottles) or a Flight (six 250ml bottles). Comes with a map and tasting notes.
A flight of Martinis is many things at once. An event, an education, an excuse to linger. Ours spans 150 years of cocktail history, and every drink has a story worth telling.
We begin with the Tuxedo. First recorded in Harry Johnson's 1900 Bartender's Manual, it's made with Old Tom gin, sweeter and softer than its London Dry descendants, and represents the Martini in its earliest recognisable form.
The Gibson emerged from the same era, when gin and vermouth were quietly revolutionising drinking culture. Its distinction is small but deliberate: no olive, no bitters, just a single pickled onion. Simple, precise, and still quietly radical.
The 1950s gave us the Vesper, the only classic Martini that dilutes gin with vodka, and the only one with a fictional origin story. Whether Ian Fleming's bartender at Dukes actually invented it or not, Bond made it immortal. Our version respects the strength of the original while finding a little more balance.
The cocktail renaissance of the 1990s arrived alongside gin's golden age. We've reimagined the Lychee Martini with a gin base, giving it a complexity and structure its vodka-forward ancestor never quite managed. By the same period, the Martini had become an exercise in austerity, ice-cold gin, the faintest trace of vermouth. Audrey Saunders' Fitty-Fitty at New York's Pegu Club pushed back, restoring vermouth to equal standing. We think she was right.
Our Pisco Martini is a nod to Ivy Mix's En Cuarto — proof that South American spirit belongs in this most British of forms. It shouldn't work. It does.
We end in London. The Espresso Martini isn't really a Martini at all, but it's the most famous cocktail of the modern era, and it was made here. If you've reached this point in the flight, it will remind you why you started.