noun

• A red or white wine flavored with aromatic herbs, made chiefly in France and Italy and used in cocktails.

  ‘Deglaze with the white wine and vermouth and reduce slightly.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Add the herbs and wine or vermouth and boil briskly until the liquid has almost evaporated.’
  • ‘This bill covers dessert wine, sherry, vermouth, port - the drinks of the matriarchs, shall we say.’
  • ‘I was passing a side-street and found about 9 people pulling sealed wine and vermouth bottles out of a garbage bin on the street.’
  • ‘You add wine, vermouth, chicken stock, a bay leaf, fresh thyme, black peppercorns and an onion cut into 8 wedges.’
  • ‘Fred disobeys the head nurse, asking the porter to go out and buy him some wine and vermouth, which he hides under his bed.’
  • ‘Heat until boiling, then add the wine or vermouth and lower the heat.’
  • ‘The Rosmarino starts with the rosemary vodka, dry vermouth and a hint of Pernod, served ice cold with a caper berry.’
  • ‘Like Sherry or Madeira, vermouth is a beverage that originated as a type of wine and ended up as a fortified wine cross breed.’
  • ‘Deglaze the pan with the Armagnac and vermouth and simmer until almost dry.’
  • ‘Ransack your cupboards for Angostura Bitters, vermouth and lime juice, and prepare the tall glasses.’
  • ‘Add the Noilly Prat or vermouth and Pernod, then cook until reduced right down.’
  • ‘Pour the vodka and dry vermouth over ice into a shaker, stir well and strain into the glasses.’
  • ‘So many herbs and spices are now used to flavour fortified wines that the definition of vermouth is necessarily elastic.’
  • ‘Our Manhattan Chicken is made with a sauce that contains rye whiskey and sweet vermouth.’
  • ‘I mean I got right up into the tv screen and looked specifically for those tears to fall and nada, nothing, dry as a martini with no vermouth.’
  • ‘These oils are used in making perfume and in imparting a muscatel flavor to wines, vermouths, and liqueurs.’
  • ‘Whites were sent to Turin to be distilled into vermouth.’
  • ‘For the sweet vermouth, use the bianco, or white variety.’
  • ‘In the act of micturition, there was a sense of pouring vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.’