Aromatised Wines

These are fortified and flavoured with roots, barks, herbs, and spices (botanicals)
with an alcoholic content 14 to 20 %. They are available in dry and sweet styles
They can be served as aperitifs and used cocktails.Vermouth is the most popular
style of Aromatised wines.

Vermouth
It derivises its name from a German word wermut, meaning ‘wormwood’
The flavouring ingredients includes cloves, cinnamon, quinine, citrus
peel, cardamom, marjoram, chamomile, coriander, juniper, hyssop, and ginger.
Italian vermouth refers to sweet and red vermouth and French vermouth refers to
dry and white vermouth.
Marseille in France and Turin in Italy are well known for vermouth production.

Production of Vermouth

To produce vermouth, the following ingredients are required:

⚫ Young wine of ordinary quality
⚫ Mistelle (mixture of unfermented grape juice and brandy)
⚫ Flavouring agents—macerated or infused in alcohol

The ordinary wine of two or three years is mixed with mistelle and the flavouring
ingredients. It is then fined, filtered, pasteurized, and refrigerated to crystallize any
remaining tartrates and to collect at the bottom of the tank. Vermouth is allowed to
rest for a short while before bottling. It is drunk young as it does not mature in the
bottle.

Styles of Vermouth

Dry Vermouth: Termed as French Vermouth, made from dry white wine, flavored
& fortified, light yellow to gold in colour

Sweet Vermouth: Termed as Italian Vermouth, made from sweet white wine,
flavored & fortified, coloured with caramel.
Bianco: Straw colour sweet vermouth sweetened with sugar or Mistelle.

Rose Vermouth: Less sweet than Bianco & coloured with caramel.

Popular brands of Vermouth

Dry : Martini ,Cinzano, Chambéry , Noilly Prat, Torella

Sweet Cinzano Red , Cinzano Bianco, Martini Bianco , Martini Rosé, Martini
Rosso ,Noilly Prat Red
Chambery: Made in foot hills of the Alps at Savoie,Given AOC status in 1932,Herbs
found in Chambery regions are used

Chamberyzette : Made in savoy Alps of France flavoured with strawberries.

Dubonnet: from France flavoured from with quinine Blonde (white) & (Rouge)

St.Raphaël: Bitter sweet drink from France.

Lillet: made from white Bordeaux wine flavored with citric fruit peels, herbs &
fortified by Armagnac aged in cask.

Byrrh :base of red wine & brandy flavoured with Quinine & herbs, from France

Service of Vermouth
Pour a 3 out measure of Vermouth in a Paris goblet & serve it with soda, tonic water
or lemonade
Famous Cocktails
Martini, Negroni ,Americano