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Onto that base go wormwood macerates, which supply the delicate, well-integrated bitterness that makes a vermouth a vermouth, together with a botanical mix of some twenty ingredients including anise, cardamom, coriander, cloves and orange peel. The result is fresher and fruitier than most of the sweet white category, leaning towards almond meal and honey rather than heavy caramel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eServe chilled at 6-8°C over ice with light tonic and a citrus wheel. It also works where a red vermouth would, alongside base spirits from gin to tequila.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Vermouth \/ Baden \/ Belsazar","offer_id":44038157140027,"sku":"14971-750","price":48.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/belsazar-white-vermouth.png?v=1787579624"},{"product_id":"chazalettes-and-co-vermouth-de-torino-extra-dry","title":"Chazalettes \u0026 Co. 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This one, recreated from Clemente Chazalettes' 1876 recipe, uses the Bava family's own Barbera with a little Nebbiolo. As Roberto Bava puts it, the tannins in a red base react differently with the spices and bitter elements and evolve on a different path over time, which gives the finished vermouth a deeper colour and a chewier texture than modern examples. Alongside Piemonte wormwood, the recipe takes in marjoram and musk mallow from the local hills together with sandalwood, mace, galangal, clary sage, cinchona bark and coriander. Every botanical is macerated separately, for anywhere between a few days and several weeks, before the blend is assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eServe lightly chilled at around 10°C over ice with an orange slice, or use it in a Negroni or Manhattan. 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The dry expression uses two types of wormwood in a botanical bill that also takes in apple, cinchona, fennel, cardamom and lemon peel, and is fortified with peach eau-de-vie from the Schladerer distillery. Residual sugar sits at 28 grams per litre, below Noilly Prat and Dolin, which makes it genuinely dry while keeping more vinous texture than most of the category. That combination makes it as useful in the kitchen, in a beurre blanc, a vinaigrette or a risotto, as it is behind the bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eServe chilled over ice with tonic and a twist of lemon, or stirred into a Martini at around 25ml to 50ml of gin. 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Chazalettes, a Turin house of nineteenth-century origin revived in recent years, ferments its Moscato base to relative dryness so that a slight bitterness is there to balance the sugar added afterwards. The bianco carries 130 grams per litre of sugar alongside sweet citrus, elderflower, rhubarb, cardamom, coriander, mace, orange, sage and a range of bitter herbs, with Piemontese Artemisia at the centre and gentian and rhubarb providing the bitter counterweight. The style is floral and grapey rather than heavy, which makes it as good neat as it is in a cocktail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eServe chilled and neat over ice with a twist of lemon, as it was originally intended, or as the base of a white Negroni. 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It ferments naturally, six weeks on skins, and goes into French barriques of five years' age before fortification and a maceration with tarragon, juniper, coriander, cinchona and semi-dried blood orange. Cinchona supplies the bitterness, and Barolo Chinato is the reference point. Residual sugar lands around 50g\/L. Using serious red wine as the base is what sets this apart from most vermouth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBitter orange, quinine and dried herbs over a dense, tannic red-wine core, sweet but firmly checked. 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Onto that goes a tincture built from wormwood, cinchona, pepperberry leaf, juniper, coriander and blood orange. Bryan Martin, better known for his winemaking at Clonakilla and for his own Canberra label, keeps these in small batches and bottles them unfiltered. Vermouth obsessives and Sherry drinkers will both find something familiar here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFresher and zestier than a typical rosso, with bitter orange, wormwood and a briny, flor-derived edge. 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