Let’s forget about this drink’s name for a moment. It doesn’t remotely resemble a classic Martini, and we won’t even begin to guess how it acquired the first part of its title. But this crowd-pleasing combination of vanilla and passion fruit accompanied by a shot of sparkling wine, created by bartender Douglas Ankrah at London’s Townhouse bar in the early 2000s and since adopted by bars the world over, certainly is a star.

Ingredients

• 45 ml vanilla-flavoured vodka 
• 15 ml passion fruit liqueur (such as Passoã or De Kuyper)
• 15 ml passion fruit puree 
• 15 ml lime juice, freshly squeezed
• 15 ml vanilla simple syrup
• 60 ml sparkling wine, chilled
• Garnish: 1/2 passion fruit

Steps

1. Add all ingredients except sparkling wine into a shaker with ice and shake vigorously until well-chilled
2. Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
3. Garnish with a passion fruit half.
4. Serve with a sparkling wine sidecar (on the side).

Disclaimer- An unedited version of this recipe first appeared on liquor.com

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