The Freezer Martini
A perfectly balanced martini, blended to live in your freezer. Silky, crisp, and ready to pour. No shaking, no stirring, no dilution, just a flawless ice-cold martini every time.
Taste
Bright, clean, and perfectly dry. Subtle citrus and soft botanicals like chamomile and coriander add lift, while gentle herbal notes keep the martini crisp, balanced, and refreshing.
Ready When You Are
Blended to live in your freezer. No shaking, no stirring, no dilution. Just pour straight from the freezer into your glass for a flawlessly ice-cold martini whenever the moment calls for one.
Why It Works
Great drinks start with great ingredients. We use top-tier components and a precise ratio to create a true bar-quality martini, blended in advance so it stays smooth, clear, and expressive at ultra-cold temperatures. The simplest way to enjoy a genuinely great martini at home.
“The martini has endured for over a century because it rewards balance, restraint, and great ingredients. Our freezer martini follows the traditional approach of clean spirit, dry vermouth, and thoughtful ratios, then brings it into the present with modern precision and ease”.
OCCASIONS
HOW FREEZER MARTINI IS MADE
The Vodka
Our freezer martini begins with an unfiltered vodka distilled from a blend of soft red winter wheat and corn. Many vodkas rely on heavy charcoal filtration in pursuit of neutrality, which can strip away natural oils that give a spirit body and texture. Zakuska is left unfiltered, preserving that natural texture and character from the grain. Soft red winter wheat, often used in baked goods for its gentle sweetness, contributes subtle notes of honey and vanilla. The result is a vodka with a smooth, mouth-coating feel and a light viscosity.. Clean, soft, and quietly complex, it has weight and presence without harshness.
DRY VERMOUTH
A bright, aromatic dry vermouth brings balance and structure to the martini. Its profile opens with lifted citrus notes like orange blossom and lemon, followed by soft florals such as chamomile and subtle spice from coriander and gentle herbal botanicals. On the palate, light fruit tones like grapefruit are met with savory herbs, finishing clean and dry with a refined bitterness. This vermouth provides the martini’s clarity, crispness, and unmistakable freshness.
ORANGE BITTERS
Just a few dashes of orange bitters complete the blend. Concentrated orange peel aromatics add a vibrant citrus lift, while gentle bitterness sharpens the martini and pulls the flavors into focus. Used sparingly, the bitters do not dominate. Instead, they brighten the aroma, enhance complexity, and create a clean, polished finish that keeps each pour lively and precise.
Water
Sourced from Kentucky and purified through reverse osmosis for clarity and consistency. The same region known for great bourbon, brought here for balance, purity, and a clean foundation that lets the spirit speak.
What Is a Freezer Martini?
A freezer martini is exactly what it sounds like: a properly made martini — vodka, dry vermouth, and bitters — blended in advance and kept in your freezer, ready to pour at any moment. No shaking, no stirring, no ice, no dilution. Just a flawlessly cold martini, every time.
The concept isn't new. Professional bartenders have pre-batched martinis for decades. High-volume bars store them in the freezer and pour to order because it's faster, more consistent, and frankly better — a properly chilled martini without the water introduced by shaking or stirring is a cleaner, more expressive drink.
What is new is finding it in a bottle. Most ready-to-drink martinis on the market use sugar, syrups, or stabilizers to stay pourable at cold temperatures. Some water them down so far they barely qualify as a cocktail. Zakuska Freezer Martini uses none of that. Three ingredients, precise ratios, and a proof point just under 30% ABV — high enough to keep the flavor honest, low enough to stay liquid at 0°F.
This is a freezer martini the way it should be made.
DISCOVER MORE
Every bottle of Freezer Martini is crafted with intention and made to be enjoyed cold, neat, and shared. Explore more about the taste, the craft, and the moments that inspired it.
Want to know how the freezer martini came to be? Read: The Freezer Martini: A Classic Reinvented
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Freezer Martini — Common Questions
Can you really keep a martini in the freezer?
Yes — if it's made correctly. Alcohol freezes at a much lower temperature than water, so a spirit above roughly 25–30% ABV won't freeze in a standard home freezer set to 0°F. Zakuska Freezer Martini is blended to just under 30% ABV specifically so it stays liquid and pourable straight from the freezer, no prep required.
How long does a freezer martini last?
An unopened bottle of Zakuska Freezer Martini keeps indefinitely in the freezer. Once opened, we recommend finishing it within 4–6 weeks for peak flavor, though the alcohol content keeps it safe and stable well beyond that. Store upright with the cap on.
Does vermouth freeze?
Dry vermouth on its own — around 18% ABV — can partially freeze or become syrupy at very low temperatures. That's one of the reasons most freezer martini attempts fail: the vermouth throws off the freeze point. In Zakuska Freezer Martini, the combined alcohol content of the vodka and vermouth blend is calibrated so the final product stays perfectly liquid at freezer temperatures.
Is a freezer martini as good as a freshly made one?
In many ways, better. When you shake or stir a martini with ice, you introduce water — typically 15–25% dilution — and the drink warms as you sip it. A freezer martini is already at the right temperature and dilution from the moment you pour. Each sip tastes identical to the last. It's the approach high-end bars use for batched cocktails for exactly this reason.
What's the alcohol content of Zakuska Freezer Martini?
Zakuska Freezer Martini is 29% ABV (58 proof). That's bar strength — comparable to what you'd get ordering a properly made martini at a cocktail bar — and significantly higher than most ready-to-drink products on the market, which typically fall between 10–20% ABV.
What's the difference between a freezer martini and a regular RTD martini?
Most RTD martinis are made with lower-quality spirits, sweeteners, or flavorings, and are often heavily diluted. A freezer martini is made with full-strength spirits and real vermouth — no sugar, no syrups, no shortcuts — and lives in the freezer rather than on a shelf. The result is a drink that actually tastes like a martini.
What makes Zakuska Freezer Martini different from other pre-made martinis?
Three things: ingredients, proof, and honesty. We use Zakuska unfiltered vodka (97-point rated), Craft Dry Vermouth, and Fee Brothers Orange Bitters. Nothing else. No sugar, no stabilizers, no artificial flavoring. It's proofed at 29% ABV so it's a real cocktail, not a flavored malt beverage in a martini glass.