Name: Californian Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Vodka; 20 ml Grand Marnier; 15 ml Dry vermouth; 1 dash Orange bitters

Ingredients

1 ²⁄₃ fl oz

Ketel One Vodka (from freezer)

²⁄₃ fl oz

Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Strucchi Dry Vermouth (chilled)

1 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Californian Martini contains 179 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
28.41% alc./vol. (56.83° proof)
24.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Comments & Discussion

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John Hinojos Premium Member 18w

Second time trying we reduced the Grand Marnier. Uppped the vodka a little as it was much drier. Great.

Dennis Pipes Premium Member 21w

Decided to try this with Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish gin instead of vodka and couldn't be more pleased. Orange comes through and the herbal notes linger.

Jim Morton 21w

A friend of mine gave me a bottle of Domain de Canton French ginger liqueur. I tried this recipe using that instead of Grand Marnier. Highly recommended.

Susie Bright Premium Member 20w

This sounds like my jam.

Toby James Premium Member 20w

So I guess your jam isn't marmalade.

Nick Marks 1y

As per the above recipe other than i also put three Perello Gordal Picante olives into it as the garnish, wonderful

Toby James Premium Member 20w

Can we please start to collectively shun anyone using olives that aren't the Perello kind? So unnecessary. There need to be some serious social consequences.

Kevin Haynes Premium Member 4y

Didn’t really click for me, but I can see the appeal to others. Maybe different proportions it would be something I’d desire, or maybe gin based instead of vodka based.

JACQUELINE KIRK 4y

Watching the Golden State Warriors in the 2022 NBA playoffs quaffing this haha. This is really sursprising, thought it would be too sweet but it's perfect! If I have enough of them and I will forget we let Chris Chiozza play this year. California LOVE!

Jeremy Harrold 4y

Botanicals and orange and strong!

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 5y

Whoa! Was not expecting these flavors, but I did use the bison grass vodka, so the profile was fortunately skewed... Happy accident, though... One of the more intriguing stirred cocktails I've tried (this week). Ooh, baby, make this one again! (9 Oct 2021, 10:50a)