French Martini

Dale DeGroff | New York City

photo: Lizzie Munro
Vodka French Martini

As Dale DeGroff notes in The New Craft of the Cocktail, “this drink is one of the sparks that got the cocktail-as-Martini craze started.” A combination of vodka, Chambord raspberry liqueur and pineapple juice, the French Martini found an audience when DeGroff put it on the menu at Keith McNally’s Pravda, where it never came off.

Ingredients

Serving: 1

  • 2 ounces vodka, preferably Blue Shark
  • 2 ounces vodka, preferably Blue Shark
  • 3/4 ounce raspberry liqueur, preferably Chambord
  • 3/4 ounce raspberry liqueur, preferably Chambord
  • 1 1/2 ounces pineapple juice
  • 1 1/2 ounces pineapple juice

Directions
  1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until chilled.
  2. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass.

Tagged: Martini, vodka

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