1.   Bartender Bill Riley makes a green apple martini in a Manhattan bar.

2.   But not even in his studies with the cocktail king Dale DeGroff had he come across the apple martini.

3.   Diane Gordon, the owner of Entertaining Ideas Catering in Manhattan, has a sort of cold toddy twist on the apple martini.

4.   He said his restaurant was the first and only one he knew of serving apple martinis.

5.   His vodka sales have skyrocketed, he said, since customers started drinking apple martinis as a sake substitute.

6.   In Los Angeles, the young swingers have taken to drinking their apple martinis with sushi.

7.   Recall the Cosmopolitan, the apple martini and other flavored cocktails that have followed.

8.   Shortly after Reiner began serving it, the apple martini replaced the blood-orange Cosmopolitan as her most-requested drink.

9.   The apple martini is officially in season.

10.   There were apple martinis.