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| | Party Ideas : Cocktail Party : Vermouth : Food Network |
 | | Vermouth is an aromatized wines, meaning the wine is infused with what are called botanicals - secret recipes of flowers, herbs, spices and roots. |
 | | This was sweet vermouth; the dry version was created in 1800 by Joseph Noilly of Lyons, who in 1813 found a partner in Claudius Prat to market what became Noilly Prat, the world's best-selling French vermouth. |
 | | The wine that vermouth is made from is not, it hardly needs be said, of the best variety, the base requiring little more than alcohol and a certain neutrality to serve as background for the recipes of botanicals that give vermouth what character it has. |
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