Ingredients
- 1½ ozvodka
- 1 ozpeach schnapps
- ½ oztriple sec
- ½ ozlime juice
- 🍋Fresh peach slice on the rim.(garnish)
🔧 Tools
Instructions
- Chill a martini glass in the freezer for at least 10 minutes.
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the vodka, peach schnapps, triple sec, and freshly squeezed lime juice.
- Shake vigorously for 10 to 15 seconds until well chilled.
- Strain into the chilled martini glass.
- Garnish with a fresh peach slice on the rim and serve.
📜 History
The Peach Martini is a vodka-based cocktail that gained widespread popularity in American bars during the 1990s, when flavored schnapps became a bartending staple and the era's broad "martini" trend encouraged bartenders to create fruit-forward alternatives to the classic dry gin martini. The combination of peach schnapps with vodka and citrus delivers a balance of peachy sweetness and tartness that proved highly adaptable for warm-weather entertaining. The drink appears consistently in cocktail reference guides including Difford's Guide, which describes it as taking peach schnapps in a more sophisticated direction, and remains a summer menu staple at bars and restaurants across North America.
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