The vodkatini

The most famous variation of the classic martini is the vodka martini sometimes know as the vodkatini or James Bond martini. Fictional British MI-5 spy James Bond demanded his vodka martinis to be "shaken, not stirred."

The James Bond vodkatini follows the blend Harry Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930 prescribing the shaking of their martini drinks. I have it on good advice that gin based martinis are to be stirred and not shaken as the cocktail comes out cloudy whilst the vodka based martini is to be shaken.

The proper name for a shaken Martini is a Bradford; however, Somerset Maugham was often quoted as saying that "a Martini should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the molecules lie sensuously on top of one another." I'm not so sure about molecular alignment but I have always followed the rule of a stirred gin based martini and a shaken vodka based martini.