The
Grape Escape Martini
Well this
one is kinda creepy. How can a martini be weird? Well
when you taste this one you might figure it out. The Grape
Escape is a total mix mash of taste sensations. It is
all about personal preference, some like it sweet and
other like more citrus so you will have to be the judge
on this one. Either that or my taste buds took a hideous
the night I tried this one out. Maybe we all should have
hid out that night and it would have solved our problems
entirely.
It was a night when we should
have just given up and gone home early but being that
we are all determined women that option never even occurred
to us. It was a night where I was ready to go out and
laugh myself silly with my best girlfriends. As I ran
out the door in my new and very sassy shoes, I knew I
looked hot and as I walked into the lounge to meet my
gal pals I was not surprised to see them all looking hot
as well. It was the makings for the perfect night, little
did I know I should have just turned around and gone home.
As we settled in
we all voted to try a different martini off the new list.
This way we could all sample the new martinis! We are
not stupid women! I decided to order the Grape Escape
mainly because the description sounded interesting, a
mixture of Vodka, Dubonnet Red and Mandarin liqueur with
the addition of citrus and white cranberry juice. When
it was presented I liked the look of this ruby colored
martini with a spear of grapes, after my first few sips
I could not decide whether or not I liked this taste combination.
Initially it takes on the taste of a sweet purple grape
but then the follow through is more on the citrus side
which was not really grooving with me. As we did the martini
sampling everyone else thought this one was a good score,
so I just racked it up to the fact that my tasters where
not working. It was at this point that the night started
to take a dive because one of my girlfriends shrieked
"Oh
shit, there he is again!” Who?
“The Stalker!” What?
All
of sudden she started to panic and was insisting that
we get the hell out of there. So we did and along our
way to the next martini spot we got the scoop on how this
guy had been asking her out for dinner, lunch, drinks
and he was not getting the hint of "No." he
was a really nice guy and they had talked a lot but she
was just not interested in him as more than a casual friend.
Then she started to notice that he was showing up everywhere
she went. The coffee shop, grocery store, gym and now
the martini bar. This was getting out of control. At first
she thought that it was coincidence and then she realized
that it was a little to frequent. We all thought she was
over exaggerating until we had ordered our next round
of drinks and were just settling in again and there he
was again. Ok, so now this was getting weird. Of course
she wanted to vacate immediately and wanted everyone to
go with her. This was ridiculous I had not even had an
entire martini yet!
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