Exotic Fruit Martini Cocktails

If you like to learn about cocktails, you have certainly learned that being familiar with all recipes of cocktails is practically impossible. You might ask “why”? The main reason is that there are many recipes which are known by extremely small groups or communities of people; and some cocktails are even known just by the people who created them. But the uncountable number of cocktails is not the only thing which we know for sure. Another fact known for sure is that martini is the most popular and loved cocktail of all times.

Actually, the martini cocktails were one of the first to appear. If you watch old movies, you have probably noticed that people prepare martini even though the movie was made in 1990 for example. But nowadays, things about martini look slightly different though. Basically, saying the word “Martini” means nothing because dozens kinds of martinis have already been developed. For instance, a martini cocktail could be made of lime (what is considered “original martini”), apple juice, pineapple, peach and even chocolate. Making a list of all martini really seems impossible.

However, there is a very tasty kind of martinis which has become very popular. These are the so called “exotic martinis”. Logically, they are given this name because of the fruits which are used as an ingredient: the most popular of them are lychee and raspberries. Actually, these two martini cocktails turned out to be one of the most preferred one and they definitely need to get their fair share.

Let’s start with the lychee. It is one of the many blessings of the Thailand Island as plenty of this fruit can be found there. Perhaps, the fruit was cultivated in China in 2000 BC but once again we are going to mention that Thailand is a main source of lychee (the biggest one in the world actually). But you probably don’t care much about the history. You want to know more about how the fruit tastes and how it affects on our bodies, right? Well, the fruit’s taste is definitely not sweet although it does not contain a little sugar at all. Determining the taste is quite complicated but it’d be probably most accurate if it was determined as something between bitter and sour. The sour taste could be explained by the huge amounts of Vitamin C which the fruit contains! So, it is not surprising that this fruit is used instead of lime for preparing Martini cocktails. Many people even like it more!

But let’s not ignore the raspberries and give some more information about their presence in the martini cocktails. Basically, you are much more likely to have heard of raspberries since they are spread almost in all parts of Europe, North and South America. Their strange could also be determined as “specific” but it is quite sweeter than the lychee. There are like a dozen of recipes for raspberry martinis and you can be sure that all of them will appeal to you. Personally, I don’t know a person who has tasted the so called “raspberry martini” just once. Everybody tries it again and again and again!

Do you love martinis? Don’t miss the Martini Guide for great martini recipes such as the ever popular lychee martini and the exotic and excellent pomegranate martini.