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VERMOUTH BROVO USA, WASHINGTON Jammy Sweet Vermouth 40PF / 750ML

LACUESTA SPAIN, RIOJA Family-owned brand since 1937. Martinez Lacuesta produces Vermut Lacuesta using only its own grapes harvested from several of its Rioja vineyards. Lacuesta Vermut Blanco 30PF / 750ML Made from 100% Airen white wine infused with 24 plants. Menthol, chamomile, and vanilla on the nose. Licorice, cinnamon, and ginger on the palate. Lacuesta Vermut Dry 30PF / 750ML Twenty plants and herbs are used in cold maceration to elaborate this white vermut. Lacuesta Vermut Rojo 30PF / 750ML The botanicals herbs and aromatic plants cold-macerated in white wine are aged in American oak barrels for 3 years before being blended with a white wine base. The vermouth is then aged for another 3 months in French oak. Lacuesta Vermut Acacia Reserva 30PF / 750ML Floral and bright in fragrance, this barrel-aged vermouth (an aged expression of the standard rojo) has an engaging vinuous texture, and a gentle touch of flowers and spice on the palate. 95pts Wine Enthusiast POLI DISTILLERIE ITALY, VENETO The vermouth recipe, handwritten in the “recipe booklet” by GioBatta Poli in the 30’s, involved the use of 33 herbs and spices in a wise natural infusion.​Almost 90 years later, with four generations of family’s distillation tradition, Jacopo Poli decided to bring back the ancient great grandfather’s formulary, to create a modern vermouth,

Sweet, red Merlot-based vermouth with the addition of cherries, hibiscus, ginger, tellicherry peppercorns, coriander seed, orange peel, lemon peel, cacao nibs, and decaf coffee beans – then sweetened to about 10% sugar with agave nectar. There’s a dryness to the finish uncommon in a sweet red vermouth. Holds up to rye. 96pts/Platinum Medal 2014 Beverage Testing Institute Pink Rosé Vermouth 40PF / 750ML Delicious rosé vermouth that starts Pinot Noir grapes. Hearty and balanced, Pink is combined with orange peel, hibiscus, chamomile, sage, tarragon, pink peppercorn, grains of paradise, juniper berry, and rose geranium. It is sweetened with agave nectar to about 6% sugar. Pink is sippable and mixes well with just about everything. 93pts/Best Buy Beverage Testing Institute Pretty Floral Vermouth 40PF / 750ML Our version of a Blanc vermouth. It starts with Pinot Gris wine from the Wahluke Slope, with the addition of vanilla bean, cardamom, elderflower, chamomile, lemon peel, comfrey, and angelica. The last stage is a sweetening to about 6% sugar with agave nectar. Best in Category 2015 American Distilling Institute Witty Dry Vermouth 40PF / 750ML Made with Washington State Sauvignon Blanc and part of a line of accessible vermouths made with cocktails in mind, this is light gold and slightly cloudy in appearance. The bouquet offers zesty herb and a hint of jalapeño layered with cinnamon. The tangy palate has fleeting pineapple and citrus flavors. Try it in a martini. 90pts/Best Buy Wine Enthusiast CHAZALETTES & CO ITALY, TURIN The heir of the dynasty, Giovanni Chazalettes, armed with the old recipes book, a rich archive and his youth memories, begins a new chapter in their history. Characterized by the shared aim to save important heritage of Turin. It’s dedicated to the Queen Margherita of Savoy, who in 1907 granted Chazalettes to bear the Real House emblem. Chazalettes Vermouth Bianco della Regina 33PF / 750ML The Queen’s White Vermouth is a Vermouth of Turin with an intense fragrance of flowers and fruit in which, in addition to Piedmontese artemisia, there are notes of sweet citrus, coriander, angelica and a perfumed cardamom. Chazalettes Extra Dry Vermouth di Torino 36PF / 750ML Citrus peels freshness is beautifully balanced by Piedmont alpine herbs roundness with recalls of juniper and other spices. Chazalettes Vermouth Rosso della Regina 33PF / 750ML The Queen’s Red Vermouth vermouth has notes of marjoram, Piedmontese herbs, musk mallow and coriander.

expression of the Bassano del Grappa’s territory. Poli Gran Bassano Bianco Vermouth 36PF / 700ML

A balanced infusion of over twenty botanicals, including Bassano native plants hawthorn and elderflower as well as grapefruit,

galangal, myrtle, sweet and bitter orange. Poli Gran Bassano Rosso Vermouth 36PF / 700ML

A balanced infusion of over twenty botanicals, including Bassano native plants holy thistle, yarrow moscata as well as rhubarb, vanilla, pimento, ginger, and licorice.

POLI OYSTER MARTINI INGREDIENTS 20 ml Gran Bassano Bianco - Vermouth Water from an oyster 60 ml Marconi 42 - Gin 1 dash of Tabasco PREPARATION

After “perfuming” the glass with Gran Bassano Bianco Vermouth, we open the oyster shell and use the liquid to enhance the cocktail’s aromas and flavors. Only later comes Marconi 42 Gin. The cocktail is then mixed with 1 dash of Tabasco and garnished with the oyster.

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