Vermouth / Aperitif

A rosé Martini, using both red and white wine, it is flavoured with cinnamon and cloves. Martini recommend serving it long over ice with pomegranate juice.

Martini Rosso is claimed to be the world's first vermouth. The distinctive colour is produced by the addition of caramel, which also tempers the bittersweet effect of the 50+ herbs and spices used in production.

Classic aromatic medium-dry Italian vermouth from Turin, made by macerating Alpine herbs and vanilla with white wine, before sweetening and fortification.

This famous Italian vermouth is medium-sweet and is made by flavouring fortified white wine with a variety of herbs and spices including gentian, clove and cinnamon.

This bestseller includes the usual Martini white wine base and herbal ingredients, but with a much reduced level of additional sugar for a dry, but not bitter, vermouth.

French aperitif based on wines from the Roussillon area in the South of France, infused with a variety of herbs and spices. The blend is oak-aged for three years before bottling.

A summery aperitif from Martini - tasty poured over ice or Americano style with soda and Campari.

A superior French dry vermouth. The white wine base allowed to 'cook' in the open air during a year of oak maturation before flavouring and fortification. The blend is then aged for a further year before release.

Another entry in the Martini wine based aperitif list, this one adding in a zingy mix of citrus and blood orange.

An aperitif made by blending a range of sherries with orange extracts. Great over ice, long with lemonade or maybe as an alternative to Pimms.

An excellent orange-flavoured red Italian aperitif from Carpano, Punt e Mes contains quinine (also found in tonic water), which contributes the bitter part of its bittersweet flavour.

Chamberyzette is a French Aperitif made with Dolin's vermouth and flavoured with wild strawberry juice. The Dolin company is a historic brand and have been making spirits and liqueurs in the Savoy region of France since the 18th century.

A historic vermouth brand, Dolin has been made to the same recipe in the Alpine hills around Chambéry since 1821, and was awarded the only Appellation d'Origine for vermouth in 1932. The Chambéry style flourished in the 19th and early 20th century, but Dolin is now the last remaining producer of Vermouth de Chambéry.

A lightly coloured red vermouth from Gancia, flavoured with the usual secret mix of herbs and fruits, including rhubarb.

A balanced vermouth, sitting between sweet and dry, with a delicate flavour.

A great all-round medium bodied sweet red vermouth, perfect for a wide-range of cocktails or just poured over ice.

Aperol is a low-strength aperitif made since 1919 to a secret recipe including both rhubarb and orange along with a wide assortment of herbs and roots. Immensely popular in Italy, its home country.

Cinzano's vermouth with a twist - of lemon. Zesty and fruity as an aperitif or as a cocktail ingredient.

Gancia was founded in 1850 by Carlo Gancia who created the very first Italian sparkling wine (Asti Spumante) and paved the way to the birth of the Italian sparkling wine industry. The vermouths of the house of Gancia are known as the ‘Classic Italian Aperitif’. The secret recipe of alpine and exotic herbs, infused with alcohol and then blended with a specially selected wine base, has not been changed since its creation.

The classic English summer drink, Pimm's No.1 is an institution in the UK, where it is enjoyed with lemonade, mint and various fresh fruits. The quintessential ingredient for a successful garden party, Pimm's No.1 is gin-based and by far the most popular of the original six 'Cups'.