Vermouth di Torino Rosso

• Sweet Vermouth di Torino produced in Piedmont, Italy, by Antica Torino
• Primary botanicals include wormwood, rhubarb, gentian, vanilla bean, rosemary, thyme, oregano, laurel leaves, & ginger
• Base wine is composed of Piedmontese white wines including Bombino, Trebbiano, Freisa, and a small percentage of Moscato
• Fortified with neutral grain spirit distilled from Italian wheat
• Botanicals are steeped individually in the neutral grain spirit for 30–45 days, blended with wine and beet sugar, and rested in stainless steel tanks for 45–60 days before filtering and bottling
• Orange sherbet, fresh rosemary, and cola on the nose; juicy palate of orange & lime zest, vanilla, rhubarb root, and thyme with a lightly smoky, bitter finish
• 192 grams of sugar per liter
• 18% ABV

This rosso vermouth is robust enough for classic cocktails such as Negronis and Manhattans but avoids a cloying finish, instead lending jeweled fruit tones to the palate balanced by stemmy herbs and bright bitterness.

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