Few cocktails capture the festive sparkle of winter holidays quite like the Peppermint Martini . Cool, crystalline, and playfully nostalgic, it blends modern dessert-cocktail aesthetics with a surprisingly deep lineage of mint spirits, candy-making traditions, and the evolution of flavored martinis during late-20th-century cocktail culture. I. Origins 1. The Ancestry of Mint Spirits Long before the Peppermint Martini existed, mint was already an important herbal flavor in glo
