Inviting guests to a friendly party, the owners often think about which of the alcoholic beverages to offer guests as an aperitif. Excellent variety at the party can be a variety of cocktails based on vermouth.
Vermouth is a dessert blended wine, which is flavored with a variety of herbs, seeds, resins and fruits. Today the world produces five main groups of vermouth - dry, white, red, pink and bitter. They drink vermouth not in pure form, but dilute and mix with other drinks. Due to bitterness, which is present in the vermouth, this drink has the property of increasing appetite. They drink it mainly before the feast, sometimes during dessert.
In alcoholic cocktails with vermouth add cognac, vodka, whiskey, gin, campari, rum. To dilute, quite different fruit juices, tonics, cola, soda and plain water will completely come down. The decoration of cocktail glasses will serve thinly sliced orange slices, pieces of grapefruit, lemon peel, canned cherries, strawberries, pineapples or peaches.
The most popular and famous are such cocktails with red vermouth, like "Americano", "Nigroni", "Manhattan".
Americano Cocktail
Ingredients:
- red vermouth - 30 ml;
- karbari - 30 ml;
- water soda;
- peel from the lemon;
- a circle of orange.
Preparation:
In a glass it is necessary to pour ice for cooling. Add vermouth, campari, soda and crushed ice. Mix everything. For the aroma put the lemon peel. Decorate with an orange circle.
The Manhattan Cocktail
Ingredients:
- whiskey "Bourbon" - 50 ml;
- sweet red vermouth - 40 ml;
- bitter Angostura - 2 dash (i.e., 1 ml);
- Cocktail cherry - 1 pc.
Preparation:
We cool the ice with a glass in which the cocktails are mixed, after which we alternately pour in portions of all the ingredients and mix. We pour the mixture into a chilled cocktail glass, decorate the canned cherries. That's all cocktail with whiskey and vermouth ready!
We serve the garnish with dried fruits.
For girls, soft, low-strength cocktails with vermouth bianco are more suitable. For example, "Ideal".
Ideal Cocktail
Ingredients:
- vermouth Bianco - 80 ml;
- tonic - 50 ml;
- whiskey - 20 ml;
- lime juice - 20 ml;
- sweet syrup - 10 ml.
Preparation:
In a glass chilled with ice, you need to add all the ingredients in turn, mix well and pour on cocktail glasses.
For those who like stronger drinks, you can offer a cocktail of gin and vermouth "Trio".
Cocktail "Trio"
Ingredients:
- white dry vermouth - 50 ml;
- red dessert vermouth - 50 ml;
- gin - 50 ml.
Preparation:
Mix all the components and pour on the cocktail glasses.
Cocktails with vermouth Salvatore is recommended to stir with fruit juices or soda water, because of its tart taste, with the addition of gin, vodka, cognac, whiskey.
Vermouth is a wine that perfectly shades the taste of other strong spirits. Therefore, cocktails with vodka and vermouth are always popular in any company.