Naturi Rosso Vermouth

27 June

Naturi Rosso Vermouth
$40, 19% alcohol, screwcap, Australia.

Sweet red vermouth is an essential of every liquor cabinet and for me personally is a staple, courtesy of its role in the negroni. Indeed the vermouth aspect is the most crucial contributor to the quality of your standard negroni, simply because it both bodies and balances the drink up as a whole. So good vermouth is not just a great thing; it makes everything better, so to speak, or at least it does for me. Right.

If you really want to elevate a negroni, go out and buy yourself some of this Rosso Vermouth from Naturi. Once you’ve done that, make sure that you pour a shot or two of this vermouth into a glass and just drink it neat, because it’s an absolute marvel just like that; plain, simple and beautiful. If you haven’t already guessed: I’m in love with this vermouth. The full list of flavours and nuances is irrelevant but you basically get beautifully balanced hits of anise, sweet herbs, nutmeg, bitter chocolate, mint and sweet (almost into glacé) cherry aromas and flavours, with various bitter-sweet botanical and Aussie bush notes infused through. The take-home is this: it tastes champion.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

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