Saketini

Quick meaning: Saketini is a noun meaning A cocktail resembling a martini but made with saké.

Meaning

A cocktail resembling a martini but made with saké.

Example Sentences

Wash it all down with a saketini or my personal fave, the gingertini, which is made with ginger, vodka, triple sec, ginger ale, and pickled ginger juice.

Along with the chocolate martini, other popular concoctions include the saketini (Japanese martini made with sake), the cosmotini and the jalapenotini (made with hot jalapeno peppers).

“Oh, um...” “Are we drinking?” “No. No.” “I am if you are.” [chuckles] “Oh. Uh...” “Liquid lunch.” “How is the lychee saketini?” “That sounds amazing.” “Right?” “Yes.” “Okay. Two of those, thank you.”

It was all downhill from there. Now you've got the pickletini, the appletini, the choclatini, and even—good heavens—the bacontini. As different types of alcohol were used in place of gin, that began to shift the name too. In addition to the vodkatini, there's the sakitini, the whiskitini (more commonly known as a smokey martini, but I'm on a roll, here), and the taqini. If you substitute beer for the gin, you've got a mantini.

Word Forms

• saketinis

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mapletini, sake, nigori, choko, chirori, sackee.

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