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Sweet vermouth
Spirits & brews· spirit

What it tastes like
On the nose: buttery, cooling, rose, floral. Among its measured molecules: p-menthan-3-ol, menthone, diethyl succinate, ethyl lactate, anethol.
What goes with it
- Dry vermouthboth carry menthonecite
- Aperitivo bitter (red)both carry ethyl lactate, butterycite
- Bianco vermouthboth carry menthonecite
Salt and acid
Salt
Salt not measured yet.
Acid
Acid not measured yet.
Unusual pairings
Pairs the library can cite that almost nobody makes.
- Sweet vermouth + Fino sherry
both carry ethyl lactate, buttery (15 of 338 carry it)
- Sweet vermouth + Quinquina aperitif wine
both carry ethyl lactate, buttery (15 of 338 carry it)
- Sweet vermouth + Cognac
both carry ethyl lactate, buttery (15 of 338 carry it)
Every one of its 15 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.
caprylic acidaromaacidreads as slight odor (PubChem)Measured in 21 of 338 ingredients.cite
'Octanoic acid was detected in all the fortified wines analyzed'; one of the ten VOMs common to all of them, and the single acid among those ten — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, acids paragraph; and common-compounds paragraph)p-menthan-3-olaromaalcoholreads as cooling odor (PubChem)Measured in 7 of 338 ingredients.cite
'In VermouthR and VermouthD, limonene and menthol were the predominant terpenoids identified' — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results and Discussion, terpenoids paragraph)phenylethyl alcoholaromaalcoholreads as sharp burning taste (PubChem)Measured in 41 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of only ten VOMs common to every Italian fortified wine analysed, and the single alcohol among them — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, common-compounds paragraph)ethyl lactatearomaalcoholreads as buttery odor (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of the ten VOMs common to every Italian fortified wine analysed, and one of the ten selected as putative characteristic biomarkers with VIP > 1 — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, common-compounds paragraph; and PLS-DA paragraph)phenethyl acetatearomaesterMeasured in 13 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of only ten VOMs common to every Italian fortified wine analysed (the paper prints 'phenythyl acetate') — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, common-compounds paragraph)ethyl octanoatearomaesterMeasured in 24 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of the four most abundant esters and one of the ten VOMs common to every fortified wine analysed — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, esters paragraph; and common-compounds paragraph)ethyl decanoatearomaesterMeasured in 17 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of the four most abundant esters and one of the ten VOMs common to every fortified wine analysed — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, esters paragraph; and common-compounds paragraph)hexanoic acidaromaacidMeasured in 24 of 338 ingredients.cite
'hexanoic acid was detected in all the Vermouth and MarsalaSup wines'; also one of the ten PLS-DA biomarkers with VIP > 1 — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, acids paragraph)alpha-terpineolaromaalcoholreads as floral, lilac (PubChem)Measured in 54 of 338 ingredients.cite
named among the terpenoids 'more indicative as characteristic molecular biomarkers of Vermouth wines' (the paper spells it α-terpeniol) — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Abstract; and Results, aroma-network paragraph)limonenearomaterpenoidreads as pleasant lemon-like (PubChem)Measured in 91 of 338 ingredients.cite
'In VermouthR and VermouthD, limonene and menthol were the predominant terpenoids identified'; the abstract names limonene among the terpenoids 'characteristic of Vermouth wines' — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results and Discussion, terpenoids paragraph)menthonearomaterpenoidreads as bitter (PubChem)Measured in 7 of 338 ingredients.cite
'nerol, α-terpeniol, limonene, menthone isomers were more indicative as characteristic molecular biomarkers of Vermouth wines'; also one of the ten VOMs selected by PLS-DA with VIP > 1 — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Abstract; and Results, aroma-network paragraph)diethyl succinatearomaesterMeasured in 8 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of the four most abundant esters and one of the ten VOMs common to every fortified wine analysed — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, esters paragraph; and common-compounds paragraph)ethyl hexanoatearomaesterMeasured in 36 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of the four 'most abundant esters identified in the fortified wines studied', one of the ten common to all of them, and one of the ten PLS-DA biomarkers with VIP > 1 — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, esters paragraph; and common-compounds paragraph)anetholaromaetherreads as sweet taste (PubChem)Measured in 11 of 338 ingredients.cite
one of only ten VOMs 'common to all the Italian fortified wines analyzed', and the single terpenoid among them — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Results, common-compounds paragraph)nerolaromaalcoholreads as sweet rose (PubChem)Measured in 13 of 338 ingredients.cite
named among the terpenoids 'more indicative as characteristic molecular biomarkers of Vermouth wines' — Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods (Abstract; and Results, aroma-network paragraph)
Sources
- Jasmins et al. 2023, Foods