Name: Watermelon Fruitini
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 slice Watermelon (fresh); 60 ml Vodka; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Watermelon Fruitini
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
1 slice	Watermelon (fresh)
2 oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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Garnish: Watermelon wedge on rim

How to make:

Cut watermelon into 16 segments, chop the flesh from one segment into cubes and MUDDLE in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

So fruity, you could almost convince yourself this is a health drink.

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History:

This cocktail emerged in London, England during the 1990s. Thought to have been created at The Met Bar.

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Peter McCarthy

7th July 2024 at 01:23

Simple but delicious. Great option for a hot summer day.

John Hinojos

5th June 2024 at 03:36

Perfect and refreshing. Use Watermelon liqueur instead of the simple syrup to intensify the melon flavour.
Had to estimate the amount of watermelon as I always buy the mini organic watermelons and they are a different size.
Drink is outstanding.

Jon Pidwerbecki

1st September 2023 at 20:49

I cut the watermelon into 30 mm cubes and used 3 pieces to the shaker including all ingredients. Then meddled followed by a 30 second shake. Just like eating the fruit. Good very tasty, but I’m missing a cocktail taste. I tried the watermelon martini as prescribed but found it a bit tart. And slightly artificial. I’m thinking some muddled fruit in the watermelon martini will be trick yo an exceptionally fine cocktail.

G. M. Genovese

7th July 2023 at 19:27

I just used fresh watermelon juice, 50 ml worth the first time. I subbed in Bacardi Carta Blanca. 60-50 rum-to-watermelon may have been too boozy. 60-50 watermelon-to-rum had more fruit flavor. Not sure which I prefer. How about you?

Leigh Leppard

24th August 2021 at 13:10

Thanks for your reply, Simon. I see I misread the instructions. I understood it as “cut the segment of watermelon into sixteenths” but you meant “cut a whole watermelon into sixteenths”.