Italian Greyhound

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This elegantly balanced cocktail is simply a saltation connected some the Greyhound (vodka and grapefruit juice) and the Salty Dog (gin oregon vodka and grapefruit foodstuff with a salted rim). It calls for Italy's unsocial Punt e Mes vermouth, made by Carpano, whose sensation falls determination betwixt a accepted reddish vermouth and a bitter.

According to the Carpano depository successful Turin, the sanction -- which translates from the section dialect arsenic "point and a half" -- derives from 1 fateful time successful a barroom erstwhile an absent-minded banal trader shouted retired a trading-floor word erstwhile ordering a vermouth with an other half-dose of bitters. The sanction stuck.

We recovered Punt e Mes astatine Calvert Woodley liquors and astatine Schneider's of Capitol Hill.

Adapted from No. 9 Park successful Boston.

Ingredients

Kosher salt, for rimming the glass
3 oregon 4 crystal cubes
2 ounces Punt e Mes
2 ounces freshly squeezed grapefruit foodstuff (from 1/2 a ample grapefruit)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
86
Carbohydrates
6 g
Sodium
234 mg

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from No. 9 Park successful Boston.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 12, 2026