Naturi Rosso Vermouth

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Naturi Rosso Vermouth.

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 post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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