The gin and vermouth cocktail known as the martini may simply take its name from Martini and Rossi, an Italian winery producing vermouth since 1829. However, other explanations for the cocktail’s name abound, including that it was invented in 1910 by Martini di Taggia di Arma, a bartender at the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York, or that it was invented by Julio Richelieu in Martinez, California. Whatever its immediate source, however, the name Martini means war-like, at least in so far as it is a derivative of Mars, the Roman god of war. First referred to by name at the end of the nineteenth century, the original martini recipe called for a gin to vermouth ratio of two to one; beginning in the 1920s, this ratio became even more disproportionate, the typical modern martini now having a gin to vermouth ratio of about six to one.