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WHY VERMOUTH DI TORINO BELONGS ON THE BACKBAR OF THE MOMENT

by David Furer

"In the pantheon of aromatized wines, vermouth is the pinnacle." Furer starts the article with this words to tell the reasons why Vermouth di Torino is now on the wave of success.

Among the Vermouth producers he interviewed Luigi Vico.

"In 2016, Barolo vintner Luigi Vico began making commercial vermouth to “touch [upon] my family historyand my territory.” As a child of 5, he’d accompany his grandfather to the bar for his aperitivo after Sunday mass. “I was not allowed to drink but allowed to smell the Vermouth di Torino in the glass,” he recalls. “From these olfactory memories, I reconstructed my recipe with herbs mainly found in our vine- yards, especially the cardoon,” which accounts for the particular bitterness of his expression."

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