Vermouth
Used in 3 recipes on RecipeWiki.
Vermouth is a fortified wine flavoured with herbs, spices and bitter roots, traditionally including wormwood, and this page covers dry and sweet red styles. Dry vermouth is pale, crisp and herbal, the lean partner to gin in the Dry Martini. Sweet red vermouth is darker and richer, with vanilla, spice and a gentle bitterness; it brings softness to the Manhattan and is one of the three parts of the Negroni. Because it is wine, it goes stale once opened: keep the bottle in the fridge and use it within a month or so, or buy smaller bottles. Stale vermouth tastes flat and oxidised and drags the whole drink down with it.
Most often cooked with
London ginRecipes with vermouth
Dry Martini
Gin and dry vermouth stirred down cold and served straight up, with a lemon twist or an olive and nothing else in the way.
15 minutes
British
Cocktails
Manhattan
Rye whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters, stirred and served up with a cherry — the older, richer cousin of the martini.
American
Negroni
Equal parts gin, sweet vermouth and Campari, stirred over ice and served with orange — the bitter aperitivo that needs no shaking and no adjusting.
Drinks