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fortified wine that botanized itself into the quiet genius behind every great cocktail
means An aromatic fortified wine flavored with botanicals like roots, barks, and herbs, served as an aperitif or used to build cocktails such as the martini and Manhattan.
from The name comes, by way of French, from the German Wermut, meaning 'wormwood' — the bitter herb that originally flavored the drink and that also gives us the word 'vermouth's' boozier cousin, absinthe. So the bottle on your bar carries a quiet botanical ghost: an old name for a plant once trusted to settle stomachs and stir appetites.
- name origin
- named for wermut, German for wormwood
- spoils fast
- an opened bottle is a wine, refrigerate it
- martini ratio
- Churchill allegedly just glanced at the bottle
- medicinal past
- sold as a health tonic in 1800s pharmacies
- two camps
- dry French versus sweet Italian rosso
for instance
noilly prat — french dry vermouth from marseillan, produced since 1786
carpano antica formula — italian sweet vermouth from milan, created 1786