Tasting Notes: Aromas and flavors reminiscent of traditional orange bitters, juxtaposed with the grassy, herbal bitterness of maté tea. A more assertive, slightly sweeter riff on the Baldoria Dry, to be sipped on its own over ice; mixed with tonic; or incorporated into classic drinks such as the Americano or Negroni.
Semi-Sweet, Bitter White Vermouth on a base of Piedmontese Chardonnay wine. Botanicals are grown in-house and/or sourced from a nature preserve in the Maritime Alps. Selected botanicals are macerated in a hydro-alcoholic solution (grain neutral spirit and water) for 10 days. Following the hydroalcoholic bath, the botanicals are macerated in wine for 10 days. The finished macerations are then blended with natural sugars that have been diluted in wine, followed by aging in stainless steel tanks. Lightly filtered before bottling. No added flavors, no colorants, no clarifying agents, no preservatives. Some natural sedimentation is common across varieties.
Estate History: Ernest Spirits, makers of Baldoria, set out on a journey “to bring vermouth into the 21st century”—to give vermouth purpose and a place on the shelf in its own right. Vermouth is very rarely consumed as a “stand-alone” spirit; it has long been a “modifier,” used to balance cocktails. The botanicals not grown in-house are foraged in the foothills of the Alps, a collaboration between Ernest and the local Alps community in an effort to promote the protection of local nature and landscape conservation.
