Old Vermouth is New Again

Martini lovers, stock up on Noilly Prat vermouth.  The French vermouth, considered by traditionalists to be an essential to the dry martini, is replacing it's US recipe with the original European version.  According to Eric Felten in the Wall Street Journal , the demise of the American martini is at stake. The typical gin to vermouth ratio of the tried-and-true American martini is 4-to-1, using a dry, mild vermouth.  According to Felten, this ratio using the "European Noilly Prat is a mess... How sugary is it? If you took an old bottle of the dry vermouth and mixed it half-and-half with the Sauternes-sweet aperitif wine Lillet, you'd have a pretty good approximation of what to expect."  

--flauersmartini