Sake & Lychee Martini

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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Akashi-Tai Daiginjo Genshu sake
1⁄2 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1⁄2 oz Ketel One Vodka
1⁄2 oz Kwai Feh lychee liqueur
4 drop Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered lychee.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with skewered lychee.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10
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Review:

Sake leads this gin and vodka-laced, lychee-flavoured Martini. It's fruity, yet dry and spirit-forward, as a "Dry Martini" should be.

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Variant:

Lychee Martini

History:

Recipe by yours truly in May 2025.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Sake & Lychee Martini contains 130 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 19.95% alc./vol. (19.95° proof)
  • 18 grams of pure alcohol

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Nick Hopewell-Smith’s Avatar Nick Hopewell-Smith
29th May at 18:14
Delicate and martini-like. Quite remarkable with a dish of salted cashews on the side!
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Simon Sedgley’s Avatar Simon Sedgley
23rd May at 04:13
Another excellent Martini recipe from our host. We eschew the, to our taste, cloyingly sweet European Lychee liqueurs and go with the Japanese Umenoyado, a blend of Lychee liqueur and Sake, which, at 8%ABV, is super elegant and refined.
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Peter Halpern’s Avatar Peter Halpern
10th May at 01:34
First, thank you Simon for an amazing cocktail.

I made this slightly differently with the same proportions.

Soto Junmai Diaginjo sake
Either Purity 34 or Botanist Islam Dry Gin
Absolut Elyx
Soho Lychee liqueur

Amazing!
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