Silvio Carta Servito Vermouth

Beschrijving

The best aperitivo! Try it on the rocks with simply a lemon zest (or if you feel it with a splash of soda!).
So aromatic, this Vermouth Bianco is made with young Vernaccia di Oristano 2023 and it delivers all the scents of the herbs from the Mediterranean maquis infused. Spectacular also in a super Americano Bianco or Negroni Bianco or Martini Dry!
But as it says the bottle itself, Servito, this really stands on its own. We called this way because when you play poker in the Italian style and you have the chance to change up to 4 of your 5 cards, if you say “servito” it means you aren’t going to change any cards and so you already have a very high score. That’s why our Vermouth is Servito!

Appearance
straw yellow.

Aroma
multiple aromas of the maquis with a predominance of senecio.

Taste
elegant, refined and smooth, with a marine ending.

Situated in the province of Oristano, Baratili San Pietro is a small town of about 1,300 inhabitants. It has always been the biggest production center of Vernaccia wine. The origins of a wine similar to ‘Vermouth’ in our town can be traced back to the Second World War, a period when Vernaccia production reached historically low levels because the workforce was at the front and vineyards were looked after by younger or elderly men. In addition to the low production, the government imposed the requisition of foodstuffs – wine included – encouraging the development of the black market.
Baratili San Pietro was fully influenced by this exchange of products in kind and all possible strategies were adopted to hide the actual production. The young wine was exchanged in terracotta recipients of about 20 litters; however, they limited the lifetime of the wine because they had a wide opening that was difficult to cork.
These containers were hidden in the most remote areas of courtyards and covered with bundles of wood. During the summer of 1945, my grandfather forgot some of these recipients, which were then discovered the following winter. To great surprise, they realized that the wine hadn’t gone bad and had acquired a scent and a bouquet full of floral notes. Those scents and aromas were coming from the cork, where some spontaneous plants had grown: one of these was ‘senecio serpens’, responsible for the most intense aromatic part. My grandfather asked some friends to taste the wine as it was, but they were not impressed. My grandmother added a small amount of sugar, and everyone was happy.
From here, the idea came to produce white Vermouth in remembrance of my grandfather and of those times.