Sapphire magazine martinis

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INGREDIENTS:
3 to 4 Raspberries
5 to 7 Mint leaves
1 oz Fresh lime juice
1 oz Simple syrup (one part sugar, one part water)
1.5 oz Premium citrus vodka
1.5 oz Moët & Chandon Rosé Imperial Champagne
Garnish: Mint sprig and raspberry
Glass: Martini
PREPARATION:
Muddle the raspberries, mint leaves, lime juice and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Add the citrus vodka
and fill with ice. Shake vigorously and double-strain into a chilled Martini glass. Top with Champagne.
Garnish with a mint sprig and a raspberry.

INGREDIENTS:
1.5 oz Finlandia Vodka <http://liquor.com/spirits/brands/finlandia/>
.5 oz Triple sec
2-3 oz White cranberry juice (or red)
Garnish: Cherry
Glass: Martini
PREPARATION:
Shake all the ingredients together with ice. Strain into a Martini glass and garnish with a cherry.

INGREDIENTS:
1.5 oz Vodka
.5 oz Dry vermouth
Garnish: Lemon twist or olives
Glass: Martini
PREPARATION:
Pour Ketel One Vodka and dry vermouth into martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist or olives.

Ingredients: 5.5 cl gin, 1.5 cl dry vermouth
Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes.
The ingredients are mixed then strained and served "straight up" (without ice) in a chilled cocktail glass
and garnished with either a green olive or a twist of lemon. (strip of the peel, usually squeezed or twisted to express volatile oils onto the surface of the drink).

While James Bond may have made the line ''shaken, not stirred," a film classic, there seems to be some debate among martini enthusiasts about the correct way to make a martini. Some claim that it should be stirred so the molecules 'float'' on top of each other from the different layers of gin and vermouth.
Others just pour it all into a glass without much care given to how the molecules line up.
I had a friend who said the best way to make a martini was to pour the gin in the glass then just wave a bottle of vermouth over it before dropping in an olive. He was a die hard gin drinker.
Either way, here's a few recipes with a twist on the standard drink.