Cocktails with Punt e Mes
Punt e Mes is a branded Italian sweet (rosso) vermouth, first made in Turin, with a pronounced added quinine bitterness.
ABV16%
Substitutes for Punt e Mes
Sweet vermouth with Campari
Build a substitute yourself: two parts sweet vermouth and one part Campari. It hits almost the same strength and sweetness, but the bitterness shifts to orange, and the cocktail turns a bit redder.
It makes the cocktail taste sweeter and far less bitter. Use it in the same amount and add a dash of aromatic bitters per 30 ml to bring the bite back.
Vermouth chinato
Works one for one, though the spicing differs.
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.
