Cocchi Dopo Teatro vermouth. Vermouth is one of those products that often gets a bad reputation based on people’s malformed impressions with spoiled versions. Even I was a vermouth hater until I realized it had to be kept in the fridge and drank within weeks-months. Vermouth is a sweetened aromatized…
Lo-Fi Sweet Vermouth. This California sweet vermouth is the perfect drink parallel to the modern California food culture, where everything is a bit fresher, lighter, fancier, and prettier. This is a massive departure from the classic Italian sweet vermouth, typically red, bold, dark, and brooding. Red vermouths are actually made…
Cocchi Vermouth di Torino. This product is popular, has a long name, and seems pretty fancy, eh? To sum it up, it’s just a classic sweet Italian vermouth…a style often referred to as red, rouge, or rosso. Vermouth is a fortified & aromatized wine – a wine enriched with botanicals/herbs…
Yzaguirre vermouths (pronounced eez-ah-gear-ray) are produced in the Catalonia region of Spain (where Barcelona is the largest city) according to an old secret recipe from the 1800s (aren’t they all…). A popular way of enjoying these vermouths is just over ice, with an olive or a lemon twist. The…
Here is the trio of Dolin vermouths. I suspect many people may have some vermouth story, the journey of how they’ve become acquainted with vermouth – a very interesting ingredient which can be quite polarizing for people new to it. For me, this was the 3rd leg of my journey.…
Carpano Antica Formula sweet vermouth. There are two main classifications of vermouths (sweet and dry), with sweet vermouth being a key ingredient in the triad for the delicious Negroni. This is THE bottle that changed my entire conception of vermouth – it’s just that good. If you’ve ever had any negative…