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French Martini

Vodka shaken with raspberry liqueur and pineapple juice until a pale foam forms. Fruity and smooth, closer to dessert than to a Martini.

Base: Vodka
Glass: Martini glass
Method: Shake
Strength: 15.61% ABV

Ingredients

45 mlVodka1 swap
Any neutral vodkahigh
Little change
15 mlRaspberry Liqueur
15 mlFresh Pineapple Juice

How to make

Technique

Shake · 10–15s

Shaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Serve

Glass

Martini glassAlso fine: Coupe glass, Nick & Nora glass

Garnish

Squeeze oil from lemon peel onto the drink.The oil is the garnish; the peel itself can go in the bin.

Taste & nutrition

15.61%ABV

172kcal

1.16Drinks

StrengthMedium

Sweet to drySweet

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Chill your glass first for a colder, better-tasting drink.

History

Year1980s

PlaceNew York, USA

Created byAttributed to Keith McNally

A fruity late-1980s New York creation, the French Martini blends vodka, black-raspberry Chambord and pineapple juice into a frothy, deep-pink drink. It rode the era when almost anything served in a V-shaped glass earned the "Martini" label, despite containing no vermouth. The French liqueur gave it both its flavour and its name. It has aged into a nostalgic modern classic.

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