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Cellar/Tasting Notes
The classic red vermouth from Italy. Its name, ("point and a half"), in the dialect of Turin, came from the day when an absent-minded stock exchange agent called out the trading floor term in old man Antonio Carpano's bar, asking for a vermouth with a half-dose of bitters. Not sickly sweet as other red vermouths, with cedar-like aromatics and tastes of bitter herbs, it is an endlessly versatile cocktail ingredient, in classic Italian gin drinks such as Negronis, in red martinis or simply mixed with club soda, tonic, cola or fruit juices. |