Cinzano Vermouth Rosso

Historically a dry, herb-infused, and sometimes pleasantly bitter fine wine, the ancient Greeks and Romans valued it for its great medicinal properties. They especially favored the addition of Artemisia absinthium, or wormwood, which they believed to have significant gastric curative properties. In the 16th century, a Bavarian medicinal wine flavored with wormwood called wermuth became popular in the French bourgeois circles. They called it vermutwein - soon becoming simply known in English as, vermouth. Today vermouth isn’t regarded so much as a medicinal product but its variations are indispensable to any modern mixologist.