Cocktails with Ambrato vermouth
Ambrato vermouth is an amber-colored aromatized fortified wine, sitting in weight between dry white and sweet red.
ABV16%
Substitutes for Ambrato vermouth
The nearest option, poured in the same measure. The sweetness holds but the color turns paler. The drink loses some bitterness, which a dash of orange bitters can quickly restore.
Pale and much drier. To make up for the lost sweetness, add about a third of a barspoon of 2:1 syrup for every 10 ml.
On the label
- “vermouth”
- A legal category, not a style word. At least 75% of the bottle must be wine, and it must sit between 14.5% and 22% ABV. It also has to be flavored with an Artemisia (wormwood) herb; without one it is an aromatized wine, not a vermouth.
Storage
It is wine with spirit added, so it oxidizes like wine: keep it in the fridge once opened and use it within a month. Left warm on a back bar, it goes flat within two weeks, losing its honeyed note before its bitterness.
