Cocktails with Carpano Antica Formula vermouth
Carpano Antica Formula is a branded Italian sweet (rosso) vermouth, an aromatized, fortified wine flavored with Artemisia and botanicals from a historic Carpano recipe.
ABV16.5%
Substitutes for Carpano Antica Formula vermouth
A sweet red vermouth brings the same sweetness and the same weight; what this one adds on top is a vanilla-and-dried-fruit richness that the ordinary bottles do not have. Expect the drink to come out leaner rather than differently balanced.
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
Dry vermouth is pale and low in sugar where Antica is thick and sweet. In a Manhattan the swap moves the drink from sweet to dry outright — put back a barspoon of syrup, though nothing will return Antica’s vanilla.
