Possible Clues:

• Drink ordered dry or dirty
• Drink, at home, one after Meistersinger's main character protects mastery
• Bird has single cocktail
• Alcohol obtained from market in Italy
• Cocktail dress that's very short contains know-how
• Small vehicle circling craft in the drink
• "Shaken, not stirred" cocktail
• Italian painter finding little to inspire his work?
• Drink suggests cunning ways to get into skirt
• In glass, one's dry painting gets very little wear on the exterior