The Mixellany Guide to Vermouth & Other Aperitifs

If your interested in wine-based aperitifs (and you should be), this is the best reference out there. The material could be presented better, and the guides to botanicals is a little stale, but still one of the few books on this subject.

Perfect was to start getting into making your own craft cocktails! Great book!

The book is long-winded on people, places, years and book titles. That said, it almost-criminally neglects Absintium Romanum (translated in the 1800′s as ‘Roman Vermouth,’ an aromatized wine recipe that is much like vermouth wine) in the seminal ancient Roman cooking text, De Re Coquinaria, attributed to Apicius.The book is far-too brief on production methods for my liking.The book contains a good list of botanical ingredients (with the failure to italicize their Latin binomial names).It presents a fairly-extensive list of apéritif products – but without any sort of distinction being made between aromatized wines and grand bitters.Tasting notes for the products are included, which may help those without direct experience of them before they buy. The tasting notes for some of the products covered in the book are culled from other sources, such as the Wine Spectator.The sourcing of the drink recipes at the end of the book, and the modern glosses on their mixology, are about what I expected them to be – no better, no worse.

A great addition to any drinks library. The explanations of different wine based aperitifs really shine a light on a subject that has fallen too far into shadow. Great for vermouth and drink enthusiasts world wide

This book has lots of info, but much of it can be found online. If you know anything at all about herbs, a great chunk of the book will be unhelpful because the descriptions of the various herbs that have been used in vermouth is too brief. Aside from that, this book has a brief history of vermouth and reviews of the various commercial vermouths out there. I guess this is good if you are bartender, but if you are interested in making your own vermouth, which is not at all difficult, this would not be helpful.

Interesting book for the wine geek in me.

But there are so few vermouth books out there you gotta take what you can get.

Superb.

Very interesting!

La storia del vermouth, le categorie e i cocktails a base di vermouth raccontonati da Jared e Anastatia. Lo consiglio a chiunque ami la miscelazione italiana.

La guida dei vermut, ottimo libro dalle tematiche ben sviluppate, un classico della mixologia. interessante digressione botanica su piante e spezie.

Looking forward to reading this book Arrival on time perfect