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Martini & Rossi

Martini & Rossi
Fiero L’Aperitivo

Category: Vermouth Sweet

Date Tasted:
Country: Italy
Alcohol: 15%
88 Points
Silver Medal
Highly Recommended
$17
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Martini & Rossi
Fiero L’Aperitivo

Category: Vermouth Sweet

Date Tasted:
Country: Italy
Alcohol: 15%
Ruby color. Aromas and flavors of candied walnuts, cherry pits, Christmas spiced potpourri, and blood orange and ginger with a velvety, lively, fruity medium body and a tingling, delightful, medium-long finish with notes of sweet and tart red cherry, valencia orange, ginger and cinnamon, and candied over roasted walnut. A solid sipper but something about this really makes you want to pair it with a smoky Islay Scotch for a Rob Roy or perhaps a Blood & Sand.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: candied walnuts, cherry pits, Christmas spiced potpourri, and blood orange and ginger
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of sweet and tart red cherry, valencia orange, ginger and cinnamon, and candied over roasted walnut
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails
Cocktail Cocktails: Amaretto Sour, Pimm's Cup
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A solid sipper but something about this really makes you want to pair it with a smoky Islay Scotch for a Rob Roy or perhaps a Blood & Sand.

The Producer

Martini & Rossi I.V.L.A.S. SPA

The Producer
Corso Vittorio Emmanuele, 42
Torino, TO 10123
Italy
39 -01157451

Vermouth Sweet

Spirits Glass Copita Amber.jpg
Serve in a Copita
Wine Specialty is a category for higher alcohol wine based on aperitifs with a variety of flavorings that are sold in the spirits channel, but are not traditional fortified wines. This includes fruit aperitifs from Poland at 36 proof made from cherry and peach; Pineau des Charentes, a French aperitif made from wine grapes and Cognac eau-de-vie, and spiced dessert wine, made from herbs steeped in sweet wine. These specialty wines can have multiple purposes, be it drinking on their own, use in cocktails or even in cooking.