Mancino Sakura Vermouth (500ML)
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Tailored pink, natural Japanese cherry blossom and Italian Violet, a feminine nose, and a wormwood bitter finish.
Giancarlo Mancino's limited edition Vermouth with Cherry blossom and Violet petals, is his revelation of Italian and Japanese culinary infatuation. A perfect blend of twenty botanicals, heavy on wormwoods for the bitter palate, on a variety of Italian white wines. Thus marking his prodigious correlation with Japan, producing only 4000 bottles yearly.
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This enticing, pale ballet slipper pink vermouth offers delicate floral aromas of Kyoto cherry blossoms and Italian violets, along with a beautifully juicy, fruity palate—think white peach and lychee, with a curl of grapefruit peel on the exhale. A 2021 limited edition of 4,000 bottles, both Italy and Japan are part of the inspirational and literal mix. Sip or mix into blossom-garnished martinis
World-renowned bartender, Giancarlo Mancino, has crafted and brought to the stage a collection of Italian Vermouths di Torino with the classics in mind.
These traditional Italian formulas, dating back to the 1900’s, were carefully blended to seduce the cocktail, enhancing its body and luster, and were created as the must have ingredient to all Vermouth based classics and all their contemporary followers by carefully infusing the perfect selection of premium and natural botanicals. Thus delivering a delicate, yet powerful unforgettable palate.
The result is a sophisticated elixir, a complex and well balanced boutique aperitif that will make any Vermouth based cocktail an exceptional experience.
These Vermouths are not only for the classics we all love but are also superb on their own, chilled straight up or on ice, promising the beginnings of a sweet kiss bursting into a bitter tongue.
Historically a dry, herb-infused, and sometimes pleasantly bitter fine wine, today vermouth is indispensable to any modern mixologist. Typically vermouths are Italian if red and sweet and French if golden and drier in character.
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