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
It is a dry style with a rich, honeyed body and a bitter edge, and most substitutes give you two of the three. Sugar is the easy correction; the bitterness comes back with a couple of dashes of a bitter, and the body does not come back at all.
On the label
- “vermouth”
- A legal category, not a style word. At least 75% of the bottle must be wine, it has to be flavored with at least one Artemisia — wormwood — herb, and it must sit between 14.5% and 22% ABV. Drop the wormwood and it is an aromatized wine, not a vermouth.
Often confused with
Bianco vermouth
Sweeter, paler and less bitter, and it is the usual substitute; it needs help from a bitter to stand in for ambrato.
Dry vermouth
Paler, leaner and drier, without the honeyed body, and ambrato is a dry style, but a rich one; swapping in a bone-dry white thins the drink.
