Aromatized Wines & Bitters
Aromatized Wines & Bitters
Aromatized Wines & Bitters
& SYRUPS
Aromatized Wines
• Vermouth: It is an aromatized
and fortified wine. Deriving its
name from g German wermut
meaning wormwood.it is flavored
with 50 ingredients like
wormwood, quinine, citrus peel,
roots, flowers and herbs. It is
served as aperitif and used for
making cocktails
Italian ones--- sweet and red
French---- dry and white
Brand names: Martini, Cinzano,
Noilly Prat, Chambery, Put-e-Mes
• Dubonnet:
Flavoured with quinine
and herbs
Available in white and
red. It is from France
• Saint Raphael:
bitter- sweet drink.
flavored with quinine
and herbs.
from France
Available in red and white
• Lillet :
made from white
Bordeaux wine and
flavored with citrus fruit
peels and herbs.
from France
• Byrrh :
From France
Has a base of red wine
and brandy
Flavored with quinine
and herbs
Bitters
Bitters are spirits flavoured with herbs, bark
roots, spices and fruits. All bitters are bitter in
taste
Two types
Flavourers--- to flavour cocktails like– angostura,
peach and orange bitter
Beverage Bitters--- are drunk neat or with ice,
water, soda or tonic water. Like Campari
Served as aperitifs
some of the bitters served as aperitifs are:
• Amer picon– French bitter, pink-red in color, flavored
with quinine, gentian, orange peel, herbs
• Campari: Red color bitter from Italy. Flavored with
herbs, spices, orange peel and quinine
• Fernet Branca: Italian bitter, flavored with 40 herbs
and spices
• Cynar : Italian bitter prepared from artichokes and
herbs
• Underberg : German bitter. Base brandy and flavored
with herbs. It looks and tastes like iodine
• Suze : bright yellow bitter from France. Flavored with
gentian and herbs
Flavourers: used in
minute quantity to flavour
cocktails.
Angostura bitters:
produced from Rum in
Trinidad.
Brownish red in colour,
flavored with gentian,
vegetable extracts and
spices
Orange bitter
It is spirit flavored
with orange peels
used in cocktail
making
Peach bitter
Spirit flavored with
peaches
Used for flavouring
cocktails
Syrups
NAME FLAVOUR COLOUR
GRENADINE POMEGRANATE RED
GOMMES SUGAR SYRUP COLOURLESS
ORGEAT ALMOND COLOURLESS
CITRON LEMON YELLOW
CERISE CHERRY RED
FRAMBOISE RASPBERRY RED
CASSIS BLACKCURRANT PURPLE