Baldoria Bitter Vermouth (75cl, 18%)

Baldoria Bitter Vermouth is a semi-dry bitter white vermouth from Piedmont, Italy, bottled at 18% ABV in a 750ml bottle. It is made on a Chardonnay wine base with four bitter wormwood varieties, sweet and bitter orange, maté tea, cascarilla bark, gentian, cinchona and cinnamon. It is produced in Boves, in the province of Cuneo. The use of maté tea alongside multiple wormwood expressions creates a layered, grassy bitterness. The nose has orange and lemon zest, herbal wormwood, gentian, rhubarb and cinnamon. The palate opens with cherry and strawberry sweetness before gentian and wormwood bitterness, cinnamon, clove and vanilla. The finish is medium-length with herbal bitterness, warm cinnamon spice and a rounded quality from the Chardonnay base.