🍐 How to Make a Pear Martini That Will Impress Your Friends (and Your Taste Buds)

Let’s get one thing straight: a good cocktail can make or break your evening. And if you’re still sipping on vodka sodas in 2025, we need to talk. It’s time to upgrade your drink game and whip up something that says, “I’m classy, I have taste, and I own a cocktail shaker I actually use.”

Introducing: The Pear Martini – a dangerously smooth, slightly exotic, and entirely Instagrammable cocktail that tastes like sophistication met a fruit basket and fell in love.

🍸 Why the Pear Martini?

Because it’s fruity without being fussy. It’s elegant, but still has that “I might do karaoke later” vibe. Plus, if you’re trying to impress someone, there’s no smoother pickup line than: “I make a killer pear martini.”

And now, you’re about to learn how to make one.

🥂 The Pear Martini Recipe (aka Liquid Gold)

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz Grey Goose La Poire Vodka (yes, the fancy stuff – you’re worth it)

• 0.75 oz Pear liqueur (just enough to whisper “pear” without yelling it)

• 1 oz fresh lime juice (not that stuff from a plastic bottle shaped like a lime – we see you)

• 3 solid squeezes of lychee puree (lychee: the mysterious fruit that makes everything cooler)

Optional Garnish: A pear slice, a lychee, or just a smug look on your face.

Click here for my preferred lychee puree--it is, hands-down, THE BEST!

Directions: Shaken, Not Stirred (Because Bond Was Onto Something)

1. Get a shaker. Dust it off if you must. It’s time.

2. Add ice – because lukewarm martinis are for your enemies.

3. Pour in 1.5 oz of Grey Goose La Poire Vodka. Say it out loud with a French accent for dramatic effect.

4. Add 0.75 oz of pear liqueur, because balance is everything, even in cocktails.

5. Squeeze in 1 oz of fresh lime juice. If you flinch from the citrus splash, you’re doing it right.

6. Add three squeezes of lychee puree. Not one. Not two. Three. This is a cocktail, not a negotiation.

7. Shake like your social life depends on it (and frankly, it might).

8. Strain into a chilled martini glass and immediately feel 34% more glamorous.

This sleek shaker is a game changer—see why I love it!

🧠 Pro Tips for Pear-Fection

• Chill your glass ahead of time. Nothing says amateur hour like a warm martini.

• Want to go the extra mile? Rim the glass with a touch of sugar and lime zest. It’s like glitter, but for grown-ups.

• Double the batch. Because as soon as someone sees you with this drink, you’re making more. Sorry.

💬 Final Thoughts: Pear Pressure Is Real

Once you make a pear martini this good, you’re going to be known as that person who makes the amazing cocktails – which is both a blessing and a responsibility. Embrace it.

So next time you’re wondering what to serve at your dinner party, your book club, or while watching reality TV and judging people you’ve never met – this is the drink.

Cheers, you fancy mixologist, you. 🍸