Vermouth di Torino Rosso

Alfredo Soria is a Piedmont vermouth house first registered in Canelli in 1934, and this Heritage Edition is the first release of its revival, bottled from the family's rediscovered recipe. The base is Piemonte Cortese DOC and Moscato d'Asti DOCG, which together make up over three quarters of the bottle, so the wine does the heavy lifting and the botanicals sit on top of it. Those are grand wormwood and Roman wormwood, with a short list of mostly Piedmontese herbs and spices.

It opens with fresh herbs and wormwood, then sweet spice and a touch of orange zest, with the grapey perfume of Moscato underneath. It is a sweet red vermouth that drinks light, with Cortese's savoury edge and a clean wormwood bitterness keeping it from cloying. Pour it over ice with a twist of orange at 8 to 10 °C, build a Soria Spritz, or use it in a Negroni, Manhattan or Americano.

Vermouth di Torino PGI, Rosso. 16% vol, 500 ml. Contains sulphites.