Last year, I was brainstorming ideas for a cocktail menu with a friend and consulting partner, when he asked me if I’d ever tried making a Martini with an olive oil-washed gin. I said yes ...

Fresh olive oil is explosively flavorful, teeming with character, grassy and full with a peppery burn in the back of the throat. It also oxidizes relatively quickly. Gin washed with old olive oil ...