Monday, January 3, 2011

Spiced Pear Martini with Core Vodka

Still playing around with last night's pear puree, so I turned to my last few drops of Core vodka, figuring the apples and pears would play nicely together.  Core is distilled from 100% Hudson Valley apples - we picked up a small bottle when we were there in September.  I'm not generally a vodka enthusiast, but Core is a great product.  It's a little hot, but wonderfully viscous and somehow tastes more like caramel apples than fresh fruit.

Spiced Pear Martini
Shake and strain:
3 oz. Core Vodka
1 oz. Martini and Rossi Biano Vermouth
1/2  oz. spiced pear puree

Good drink - the caramel flavors in the vodka works well with the spices in the puree.  A touch of acid and maybe some Peychaud's bitters next time, but definitely something worth making again in the fall or winter.

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