1.25 Aria American Dry Gin
0.75 Lustau Vermut
1 mint sprig (to be shaken)
Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish with fresh mint. — This mentholated martini-riff originates with Straub in 1913, is picked up by Jack in 1916, and dies there in 1933. It may have been named after a Pine Tree Hotel or Club (as many otherwise inexplicably named cocktails seem to have been). Today the name brings to mind a pinaceous gin and a dash of Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur, perhaps, or Evergreen, or even just a pine muddle or tincture; and in fact there are some strong contenders that go this way. Suffice it to say, the identity of the drink did not take root in the heart of the general drinking populace, and it died. But an echo lives on in the Cooperstown Cocktail, which is differentiated chiefly by the incorporation of dry vermouth.
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