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  EncycloWine: Encyclopedia for Wine Enthusiasts - Vermouth
Vermouth is a fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and spices ("aromatized" in the trade) in recipes that are closely-guarded trade secrets.
Dry white vermouth, along with gin or vodka, is a key ingredient in the mixing of Martinis, in proportions that may account for the lackluster sales of dry white vermouths.
Red vermouths are sometimes referred to as Italian vermouths and white vermouths as French vermouths, although not all Italian vermouths are red and not all white vermouths are French.
www.encyclowine.org /index.php?title=Vermouth&printable=yes   (235 words)

  
  Vermouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The inventor of vermouth, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose this name in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine fortified with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.
Dry white vermouth, along with gin or vodka, is a key ingredient in the mixing of martinis.
Red vermouths are sometimes referred to as Italian vermouths and white vermouths as French vermouths, although not all Italian vermouths are red and not all white vermouths are French.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vermouth   (245 words)

  
 Vermouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Of course, for lesser French vermouths there are various shortcuts, as indeed there are for the smaller domestic Italian houses and the numerous vermouths of all styles made around the world.
Vermouth was originally sold as a type of concentrate, and customers in a tavern would call for one or more measures, which they would then add to white wine in whatever proportion suited them.
Bianco (white) vermouth being, despite its light colour, fairly strong in flavour may be well iced, and it is often served as a long drink with soda or sparkling spa water, 7-Up or fizzy lemonade, and a slice of lemon will cut the sweetness.
users.bigpond.net.au /mickandlucyna/mickstavern/Vermouth.htm   (1467 words)

  
 VT DLC: Retail: Product Descriptions: Vermouth
Vermouth is an aromatized wine which means that spices, herbs and spirits have been added to the wine.
Vermouth is a wine base to which various herbs, spices, fruit peels, roots or flowers have been added.
Sweet vermouth is used in a multitude of cocktails, the most well known being the Manhattan, and also for cooking.
www.state.vt.us /dlc/retail/descriptions/vermouth.html   (455 words)

  
 Lovat Stephen: A Volume on Vermouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Depending on the translation it might have been meant as a painkiller — a mixture of the sour white wine that was the standard ration of the Roman army, while the 'gall' was the myrrh of St. Mark's Gospel, a catchall term meaning anything bitter.
It was not long before the emphasis on their medicinal (or sexually stimulating) properties gave way to vermouth becoming regarded as simply part of the Good Life — and an excellent "wine" to mix with grain spirits.
It examines the use of flavourings such as an olive or a zest of lemon-peel; as well as the exact ratio of the mixtures of the more common ingredients and whether these should be poured "on the rocks" or the ice left in the shaker.
www.lovatstephen.com /archives/2006/12/a_volume_on_ver.html   (1168 words)

  
 Vermouth information
Vermouth is a fortified wine aperitif, normally infused, macerated or distilled with herbs, spices, alcohol, and a blend of other ingredients.
The main types of Vermouth are Dry Vermouth and Sweet Vermouth.
The original Vermouth, "Sweet Vermouth" is also available in white (bianco) as well as red (rosso) and is of slightly less alcoholic content than the Dry Vermouth.
www.drinksmixer.com /desc359.html   (97 words)

  
 Boissiere Sweet Vermouth
Vermouth is an aperitif named from the Latin "aperio" meaning "to open".
Vermouth is an aromatized wine, made from a neutral, dry white basic wine which is then blended with an infusion.
The infusion, which gives each vermouth its unique and distinctive character, is created by flavoring the basic wine with a special selection of herbs, flowers, fruit peels, seeds, plants and other botanicals.
www.internetwines.com /rws29238.html   (228 words)

  
 Vermouth (sweet) as defined by Drinkalizer.com
Vermouth, being a very important ingridient in many cocktails, is wine mixed with specific herbs, alcohol, sugar, caramel and water.
Sweet vermouth can be enjoyed as an an apÈritif as well as in cocktails with a mildly sweet touch such as the Manhattan.
Half-sweet (semi-sweet) vermouth is, as you might have guessed, white or red vermouth with a residual sugar content ranging from 5% to 10%.
www.drinkalizer.com /definitions/vermouth-sweet.php   (196 words)

  
 Vermouth
Vermouth's alcohol level is 16% for dry vermouth and 18% for sweet vermouth.
Traditionally, Italian vermouth is supposed to be sweet and French vermouth to be dry; however this distinction is no longer valid as both countries produce both sweet and dry.
The three most common categories are white (dry), bianco (white and slightly sweet), and red (sweet) vermouth.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cooking_basics/100878   (489 words)

  
 Seminars at Instutute of Culinary Ed
When vermouth became widely available by the 1870s the use of curacao as a sweetener in cocktails waned and vermouth became the sweetener of choice.
Vermouth was used in the cocktail in place of curacao in almost the same applications married with a base liquor, and bitters.
Vermouth was a relatively new product for the United States, it wasn't even produced commercially until the late 18th century in Europe.
www.kingcocktail.com /martini.html   (1332 words)

  
 Vya Extra-Dry Vermouth: The Splendid Table
The vermouth category began some 200 years ago with the commercialization of the first vermouth in the sweet red Italian style by Carpano.
The essential feature of modern vermouth, compared to other aromatized wines, is that it is flavored with a larger number of different plants.
The red sweet vermouth is best used as a delicious aperitif, served on the rocks or as a cocktail mixer.
splendidtable.publicradio.org /souptonuts/wine_vya.html   (259 words)

  
 Vermouth
These new, preferred vermouths are capable of rising to meet the challenge of the spectacular growth in premium wine and spirits categories we have been observing during the past decade.
These vermouths are true aperitifs: heady, herbal and most appropriate for sipping on their own at the bar or before dinner.
Our King Eider Vermouth is made with premium triple-distilled brandy and a unique proprietary blend of botanical extracts such as chamomile flower, star anise, bitter orange rind, sweet cinnamon, and Moroccan rose buds.
www.beveragebusiness.com /bbcontent/art-arch/mmepstein0701.html   (1398 words)

  
 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.
www.foodnetwork.com /food/et_pa_cocktail_party/article/0,1972,FOOD_9853_1718816,00.html   (911 words)

  
 Arts & Leisure: Vermouth: The Maker of Martinis (Weekly Alibi . 03-06-00)
Few arguments in the realm of cocktail culture have engendered as many barside imbroglios as the proper proportion of vermouth to gin (or vodka) in a martini.
Perhaps the reason many drinkers ask for martinis with ridiculous 8-to-1 or 10-1 gin and vermouth mixtures and dream up such preposterous inventions as the martini dropper and the martini atomizer is that vermouth is a much misunderstood concoction.
Vermouth is a fortified wine infused with a mixture of herbs, sugar and water.
weeklywire.com /ww/03-06-00/alibi_cocktail.html   (701 words)

  
 Vermouth Meets the Onion Gang
Vermouth is basically a fortified wine created from a complex combination of ingredients, not unlike how gin is distilled from herbs and juniper berries.
With vermouth, it's as if an entire soup world of possibilities has opened up in my soup-concocting mind.
Although I like the "gourmet" pretense of using a bouquet garni cheesecloth pouch for the seasonings, my suspicion is that the vermouth eliminates the need for the garni.
www.moscowfood.coop /archive/vermouth.html   (521 words)

  
 Vermouth - RetroFuture Pop Exotica Music
Vermouth will be joined on the 23rd with firedancing by Celeste Lear, as well as musical perfromances from Annmarie Solo and Antonia Bath.
Vermouth is headed to Santa Cruz this weekend for two live shows and one radio show.
Vermouth will also be playing on Friday the 18th at Abuelitas in Justine's home town of Topanga Canyon.
www.vermouthlounge.com   (1643 words)

  
 Torino Turistica - Servizio Telematico Pubblico - Città di Torino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vermouth is produced with white wine with the addition of a infusion of over 50 different varieties of herbs and spices, sweetened with sugar but without the use of colourings...
Everybody laughed, but this variation to Classical Vermouth was rapidly very successful and became the speciality that has made Carpano world famous.
Vermouth is at its best drunk straight, or lengthened with water as a refreshing drink, but always very cool.
www.comune.torino.it /canaleturismo/en/curiosity/vermouth.htm   (364 words)

  
 Vermouth - The Most Common Variety of Aperitif Wines, Sweet and Dry Vermouth
But sweet and dry vermouth is the most common variety of apéritif wines.
Typically, they are more bitter than dry vermouth, though produced in much the same way.
Even during Prohibition some dry vermouth was considered medicinal and therefore legal in the United States.
www.bartv.com /features/bar_modifiers_vermouth.htm   (168 words)

  
 Arts & Leisure: Vermouth: The Maker of Martinis (Weekly Alibi . 03-06-00)
Perhaps the reason many drinkers ask for martinis with ridiculous 8-to-1 or 10-1 gin and vermouth mixtures and dream up such preposterous inventions as the martini dropper and the martini atomizer is that vermouth is a much misunderstood concoction.
Vermouth is a fortified wine infused with a mixture of herbs, sugar and water.
Vermouth comes in two major types: dry (also known as "white" or "French") and sweet (also known as "red" or "Italian").
www.weeklywire.com /ww/03-06-00/alibi_cocktail.html   (701 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/vermouthlounge
Vermouth's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog]
Vermouth performs Retrofuture Pop Exotica filled with intricate vocal harmonies, atmospheric guitars, keyboards, trumpet, bass and drums.
Quirky and catchy- with songs featuring sea anemones, go go dancers, iguanas and various tales of idiosyncratic friends- Vermouth condenses an eclectic assortment of influences into bite size chucks of pop music that are both melodic and offbeat.
www.myspace.com /vermouthlounge   (602 words)

  
 Strat's Place - Daniel Rogov - Misunderstood Vermouth
Vermouth may be the most popular aperitif in the world, but it is also one of the least understood of all alcoholic beverages.
Every company that makes vermouth has its own flavoring formula, and the most complex and richest vermouth may have as many as fifty ingredients, often including a secret mixture of herbs that have been chosen for their aromatic and even medicinal properties.
In France, Italy and several South American countries, vermouth is most often drunk as an aperitif but the population is divided on their preference for drinking it on the rocks or with soda.
www.stratsplace.com /rogov/misunderstood_vermouth.html   (492 words)

  
 Vermouth : buy online @ TheDrinkShop.com
Vermouth is a fortified wine flavoured with aromatic herbs and spices ("aromatised" in the trade) in recipes that are closely-guarded trade secrets.
The inventor of vermouth, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose this name in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine fortified with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.
Martini Rosso, the original vermouth, which is bitter-sweet in character and the most complex of the...
www.thedrinkshop.com /products/productlist.php?catid=31   (269 words)

  
 Celebrator Apr/May 2003: Seduced by Vermouth
Ask in Britain for "a martini" and you may be given that company's vermouth on the rocks, probably with a slice of lemon, or even a swoosh of soda, but sadly innocent of gin.
France's best-known vermouth, created by the families Noilly and Prat, began in Lyons, moved to Marseilles and is now in the city's distant offshoot, Marseillan.
Most of my bartender friends defer to their customers and use the milder-tasting Italian vermouths in dry martinis, but several privately confess that their personal preference is the more assertively fragrant Noilly Prat.
www.celebrator.com /200304/vermouth.html   (915 words)

  
 Vermouth Page
Pour vermouth and Cynar over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass, stir and squeeze orange wedge over drink before dropping it into the glass.
Stir vermouth and whiskey with ice and strain into a cocktail glass or mix on the rocks in an old-fashioned glass.
The "traditional" ratio is said to be two parts gin to one part dry vermouth, though this is far from the favoured combinations.
website.lineone.net /~frank.lake/vermouth.htm   (317 words)

  
 Vermouth - Wine
Vermouth is an aromatised wine, which means that unlike a fortified wine (in which a spirit is added to significantly boost the volume of alcohol) additives are done purely to modify the flavour.
Dry vermouth was developed in France in the early 19th century by Joseph Nolly.
Vermouth is used as an appetizer and as a mixer in cocktails It's sometimes served as an apéritif.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art13438.asp   (267 words)

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