Pear Martini Recipe
Equal parts clear pear eau-de-vie and dry vermouth with orange bitters — a dry, perfumed, truly pear-scented Martini with no juice or sugar.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Martini glass
- ABV: 24%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Pear brandy (Poire Williams)30 ml (1 oz)
- Dry vermouth30 ml (1 oz)
- Orange bitters2 dash
How to Make It
- Add pear brandy, dry vermouth and orange bitters to a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir until very cold.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Express a lemon peel over the drink and garnish with it.
Garnish
Lemon peel
What it tastes like
Fruit notes come forward and the spirit is right out front.
The technique
Stirring. All-spirit drinks are stirred — shaking whips air into them and ruins both the clarity and the texture. Thirty to forty seconds in a mixing glass, the spoon tracing the wall. You are after the same ~20% dilution, just slower and under control.
Glass and ice
The conical martini glass. Made for drinks served without ice — the stem keeps your hand off the bowl and the cone funnels the aroma upward.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Dry vermouth
- Dry white vermouth. Same rule as the sweet one: fridge, one month. When someone asks how dry a martini should be, this is the ingredient they are talking about.
- Orange bitters
- Orange-peel bitters. Where Angostura brings spiced weight, this brings citrus lift; in gin and tequila drinks the two are not interchangeable.
The Story
A fifty-fifty Martini variation in which Poire Williams, the unaged pear brandy of France and Switzerland, takes the place of gin.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Pear Martini mixed?
- It is stirred and served in a martini glass.
- How strong is a Pear Martini?
- Roughly 24% ABV as served — in fortified-wine territory — plan it as a single drink.
- Can a Pear Martini be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Pear Martini hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
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