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Vermouth
Vermouth is a fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and spices. It was created by a man called Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, he chose this name in 1786 because he was inspired by a wormwood enhanced German wine fortified, wormwood a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe. The modern German word Wermut means both wormwood and vermouth. 
There are 3 different types of vermouth, in order from driest to sweetest: dry, sweet/red, and bianco/white. The sweet red vermouth is usually drunk as an apéritif, often straight up, as well as in mixed drinks like The Manhattan cocktail. Dry vermouth, with gin or vodka, is a key ingredient in the mixing of martinis, in proportions that may account for the falling sales of dry vermouths. Red vermouths are sometimes referred to as Italian vermouths and white vermouths as French vermouths, although not all Italian vermouths are red and not all white vermouths are French.
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