You know the classic James Bond line “Martini, shaken, not stirred” is there an actual difference in the taste of the drink from shaking it vs stirring it?
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Most drinks these days are shaken, but it’s best to think of stirring as the default. It chills, dilutes, and combines your ingredients, while maintaining the clarity of the beverage.
Shaking also aerates the drink and mixes things more aggressively. You want to shake any time you have an ingredient that needs aeration (like citrus juice), or that needs to be broken down (like eggs or cream).
Shaking also gets things a bit colder, which is (probably, AFAIK nobody ever asked him) why Fleming liked his martinis shaken.
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