There is nowhere to hide in a Dry Martini. Gin is either palatable straight with a few drops of vermouth or not.

Many are not, but Tanqueray – particularly Tanqueray 10 – is comfortable no matter how naked.

Thirty-five of the 100 bars polled agree. Team Plymouth is 15 bars strong.

For a Negroni bartenders are looking for power to punch through the Campari and Tanqueray wins again – 27% of bars use it, to 21% for Beefeater.

It’s the same pair for Tom Collins, though Hayman’s runs Beefeater close.

But the Pernod brand is preferred for the Singapore Sling in 26% of bars, edging out Tanqueray to second, the choice in 20% of bars.

In vodka cocktails, Ketel One is considered the go-to brand among the World’s 50 Best Bars. 

In the vodka Martini, more than double the number of bars use Ketel One than do Belvedere and Grey Goose.

This list is exclusively super-premium and above.

Bartenders, though, clearly like the look of Ketel One naked. With clothes on – in the Cosmo – it also meets ’tenders’ expectations, with 28% preferring the brand.

In the Bloody Mary it was the most likely vodka ahead of Absolut (11%) and Grey Goose (5%).

The Old-Fashioned is so popular now it’s changed the fortunes of the bourbon category.

The brand most favoured is Woodford Reserve, with 13% bars attesting to its suitability.

Maker’s Mark was preferred in 8% of bars and the same duo dominate when it comes to the Mint Julep - 14% opt for Woodford Reserve and 13% for Maker’s Mark.

In the Manhattan it’s Rittenhouse Rye that gets the nod in 22% of bars as opposed to 8% for Bulleit Rye in second. 

Bartenders are most likely to choose Johnnie Walker when it comes to a Rob Roy.

The Diageo scotch is chosen by 16% of bars, while Chivas Regal is used in 9% of bars, just ahead of mixed malt Monkey Shoulder.

In the worlds’ best bars, brandy cocktails seem to be made with three brands: Hennessy, Rémy Martin and Pierre Ferrand.

The Sidecar is between two of the big two cognac brands, Hennessy and Rémy Martin, with Pierre Ferrand in a close third.

The smaller cognac brand is preferred among our polled bars for the Brandy Julep. The Sazerac here is the cognac, not whisk(e)y variety and Pierre Ferrand is the overwhelming choice.

In 24% of polled bars they use the brand for the leg-wobbler, with 14% opting for Hennessy and 11% Rémy Martin. 

As a rum that lives in Cuba, rather than a rum born in Cuba, Havana Club is the world’s 50 best bars topchoice for the Mojito.

It is preferred by 38% of polled bars, to Bacardi’s 20%.

Havana Club is the choice too for the Daiquiri in 27% of bars, but in 23% it is Bacardi.

Outside of the Cuban favourites, Bacardi gets its revenge – it is the rum of choice for the kitsch cocktail of the moment, the Piña Colada, in 21% of cases.

Stepping further into tiki, Appleton wins the Mai Tai poll – 33% of our bars use the brand, as opposed to 8% for fellow Jamaican brand Smith & Cross and 6% that use Bacardi. 

Ocho was the top pour in the tequila category, so it makes sense it is our bartenders’ choice for its numberone vehicle, the Margarita. It pips Don Julio, with Tapatio a few back in third. 

For the Pisco Sour, our bars go Peruvian. Barsol and Campo de Encanto fight it out to be the choice pisco, with Machu Pisco also occupying high ground. 

The market is fragmented though, so bars are using many different pisco products.

It seems that Leblon is the cachaça brand choice of the world’s best bars. It is used as the spirit in the Caipirinha in 26% of cases. 

Eight bars of the 100 polled use Germana, with seven serving up Sagatiba.