Antica Torino Vermouth di Torino Bianco Piedmont, Italy (750ml)

Style: Vermouth di Torino Dry

Producer: Antica Torino

Grape: Cortese infused with botanicals 

Where: Torino, Piemonte

Country: Italy

Taste: Antica Torino Dry is made with Cortese DOC wine from Piedmont that renders a particularly elegant, floral, and vinous vermouth. Enjoy on the rocks with a twist of lemon or in bold classics.

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Based on a blanc vermouth recipe from the 1940s–1950s / Blend of Italian grapes such as trebbiano, chardonnay, and cortese, fortified with neutral spirit distilled from wheat and infused with herbs and spices / Featured botanicals include wormwood, marjoram, sage, thistle, thyme, coriander, and licorice (the licorice is macerated separately for maximum extraction and then blended to best represent the flavor of the original recipe) / Marshmallow and white flowers on the nose; round and pleasant bitterness on the mid-palate with a notable finish of licorice root and sweet tarragon / 16% ABV; 165 grams of sugar per liter Bianco vermouth is of the most popular aperitivi in Italy, traditionally enjoyed on the rocks with a twist. This recipe originates with the family of Paola Rogai, Antica Torino’s beloved office manager. Paola’s great-uncle Carlin lived in the Monferrato area and worked for FIAT in Turin while making wine and vermouth from his family’s vineyards. Updating the recipe for modern use, Antica Torino presents a vermouth bianco with earnest origins and unique character, easily distinguished from its competitors while retaining mixing versatility.

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Vittorio Zoppi and Filippo Antonelli founded the Antica Torino company to produce and rediscover traditional Piedmontese aromatized wines, liqueurs and spirits, creating new recipes inspired by traditional ones. Their first product could only be a vermouth, the symbol of the city’s excellence and elegant lifestyle. Vermouth Rosso derives from constant work at the distillery and from continual experimentation and tasting, with the aim of creating an organoleptic masterpiece. Research into the recipe took many months and many versions of the product to arrive at the definitive one inspired by the most ancient Savoy recipes. The ingredients include home-grown herbs such as absinthe, rhubarb and gentian, grapefruit peel, vanilla pods, rosemary and red thyme, which country-dwellers have always used to aromatize their wines. Thirteen botanicals in all, entirely natural (with no ready-made dyes), processed individually and on a cottage-industry basis, whose complete list remains a secret according to the best Piedmontese tradition: each vermouth, in fact, has its own formula, jealously guarded within the family. Because of the uniqueness of its organoleptic qualities, Antica Torino Vermouth occupies an important place in the landscape of fortified wines: compared to more modern products it is more similar to those drunk in the bars of Turin during the Belle Epoque. This means that with Antica Torino Vermouth, as well as modern cocktails, you can also faithfully recreate the first cocktails ever made in history, and thus rediscover tastes and aromas that have been forgotten for over 100 years. Antica Torino Vermouth will shortly bear the recently-approved “Vermouth di Torino” IGP (Protected Geographical Indication) mark.