Name: Reverse Vesper Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Blanc quinquina/kina; 30 ml Aromatized wine; 10 ml Gin; 20 ml Vodka

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Blanc quinquina/kina (e.g. Mattei Cap Corse, Bonal, Kina L'Aéro)

1 fl oz

Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)

1/3 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

2/3 fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Reverse Vesper Martini contains 156 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.6% alc./vol. (37.21° proof)
18 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

Please log in to make a comment

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

Definitely shake. This one, for us, is best icy cold.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

Kina L'Aéro and Lillet Blanc pair brilliantly here with just enough gin/vodka to cut the richness of the quinquina. Loved the lemon zest!

John CARR Premium Member 1y

As Simon says, light, delicate, fruity and wine like. Very refreshing. Potentially a good introduction to cocktails for someone who isn’t sure or had bad experiences with strong alcohol. Especially white wine drinkers. The enriched fruitiness with cleansing after note of bitter is really very pleasant and moreish. Great summer drink, perhaps even garnished w a strawberry or similar… I’m thinking of my sister in law and the approaching Christmas (in Australia).

John CARR Premium Member 1y

I used cocchi americano as no Lillet blanc to hand and other kinas are unavailable here.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

Maidenii downunder do a kina...and very subtly seductive it is.

John CARR Continue thread (1 reply)

Ryan Harrold Premium Member 2y

After making the Vespar Martini 2 days ago, I decided to make the Reverse Vespar Martini, since it’s quite similar although I didn’t have any Kina Lillet, so I ended up making it without the Kina Lillet, which turned out to be better then a regular Vespar Martini, but still not the greatest due to my palette either liking sweet or slightly dry drinks, but after adding a few dashes of orange bitters made the drink a little better and made the drink actually palatable

Steven Jepson Premium Member 3y

I had forgotten about this one and it's has been at least a year.
Used a Roku Gin so switched the Lillet and vodka proportions to bring up the strength and used a Belvedere Vodka.
Why have I not come back to this before! The Tempus l'Areo is the key to this serve and cannot be changed as it brings such a flavour and depth.
A definite must try

Jacques Gaudin Premium Member 1y

I totally agree that Tempis l'Aero really shines here. The quinine taste is more obvious than when I tasted it separately.

Steven Jepson Premium Member 4y

I went with the Shake for an ice cold finish. Even with all the other ingredients the flavour of the Tempus Kina comes through with a lovely almost marmalade finish. This is a bold surprising sweeter than expected drink with a lovely mouth feel.