"A young Viognier vineyard on Sugarbird Manor in Stellenbosch. Dried flowers, potpourri, dried ginger root, hibiscus, orange peel and strawberry juice. Tastes pretty close to dry with a fragrant peppermint finish. Includes the taste of rooibos tea botanicals as well as the ping and zip of the grapefruit rinds. Beautifully juicy, red shiny maraschino-cherry and nectarine fruit in the middle." 25 g/L Residiual sugar.
The family that created Barolo Chinato still keeps their recipe secret. This is the best way you can finish a meal: single-vineyard Barolo macerated with spices and herbs to create a spectacular bitter wine amaro. A candidate for the best after-dinner drink in the world.
Carpano's White Vermouth has a bit of sweetness, some citrus, cocoa beans, vanilla, and almond aromas for a complex drink with a slice of grapefruit or topped with Sparkling wine or club soda.
Pronounced "poont-eh-mess", with its origin in an off-the-cuff drink, mixed according to a share price increase, that became too popular not to bottle. Cin cin!
Wowza! One of the best white vermouths in the entire milky way galaxy. Taste like cream soda and has fresh green herbs, bitter citrus with fennel and anise.
The ideal replacement for long-defunct Kina Lillet. Not only is this an exceptional apéritif (rocks, orange slice, perhaps a splash of soda), it's just the thing for a Vesper (or the brilliant Corpse Reviver #2, but beware: in the words of cocktail legend Harry Craddock of the London Savoy, "Four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again.")
