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Vermouth is a fortifie wine flavored with aromatic herbs and spices ("aromatized" in the trade) using closely-guarded recipes (trade secrets). Some vermouth is sweetened; unsweetened, or dry, vermouth tends to be bitter. The person credited with the first vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction "vermouth" in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe. The modern German word Wermut (Wermuth in the spelling of Carpano's time) means both wormwood and vermouth. The herbs were originally used to mask raw flavors of cheap wine, imparting a slightly medicinal "tonic" flavor.

Trivia about vermouth

  • The name of this aromatic wine found in martinis comes from the German word for wormwood
  • The dry white variety of this wine is used in a martini; the sweet variety, in a Manhattan
  • A dry martini is made with dry gin & the dry type of this fortified white wine
  • A knickerbocker cocktail contains gin, as well as the sweet & dry types of this
  • Containing a mixture of about 40 herbs, this aromatized wine is used in martinis
  • Used to make martinis, it's an aperitif wine flavored with herbs
  • This is a white wine flavored with herbs; add it to gin & you've got a martini
  • "There is something about a martini...& to tell you the truth, it is not the ____-- I think that perhaps it's the gin"
  • ...This cocktail ingredient, "sweet" or "dry", that's found in a Manhattan
  • To make a brantini, stir together brandy, gin & a dash of the dry type of this
  • For a Miami Beach cocktail, you'll need scotch, grapefruit juice & the dry type of this martini ingredient
  • "Dry" in bartending can pertain to the use of this fortified liquid that also has a "sweet" type
  • A martini ingredient:HUT MOVER
  • The name of this sweet or dry wine flavored with aromatic herbs comes from the High German for "wormwood"
  • Asking for a "perfect martini" isn't an impossible demand; it means to use both the dry & sweet types of this

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