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Review: Mommenpop Seville Orange Citrus Aperitif

Drinkhacker

California-based Mommenpop recently hit the scene with an enticing pitch: Its aperitifs are made from Northern California wines fortified with Napa-made grape neutral spirit, to which real, whole, organic California citrus is added alongside “select botanicals.” The finished product is, well, very much unlike Aperol.

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Review: Lo-Fi Aperitifs Vermouth and Amaro, Complete Lineup

Drinkhacker

The story of Lo-Fi Aperitifs begins in California, where regionally appropriate botanicals are sourced to create various vermouths and an amaro. All of them use wine for the base — even the amaro — which keeps things light and lively, with abv kept in check. Read on for our thoughts.

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From Dorm Room Shots to At-Home Aperitifs: Millennials Re-Embrace Pregaming

VinePair

I like interesting cocktails, but they’re often too bitters-based now. With the financial security, improved taste (and abandonment of heedless binging) of adulthood, pregaming was subsumed by its more glamorous adult cousin: the aperitif. The aperitif hour is sacrosanct, when you sit down and take a little stock.

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Elements: Cocchi Americano Cocktails

Imbibe Magazine

Exhibit A: Cocchi Americano, an aperitif wine from Italy (actually, two aperitif wines—a bianco and a rosa). The wines are refreshing and bright with ice and a splash of soda, and distinctively useful tools in cocktails. Is it a classic aperitif highball made with Campari, vermouth, and soda water?

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Low-ABV Cocktails

Imbibe Magazine

Adonis Simple and low in alcohol, this classic is the perfect aperitif. Bamboo This classic is the second in cocktail history to use a split base of sherry and vermouth and dashes of bitters (the Adonis was the first). Endless Spring This mix of aperitif and amaro showcases the glorious strawberry.

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A New Generation of Vermouth Puts Wine in the Spotlight

Imbibe Magazine

Dave O’Brien’s wine-focused vermouth has its origin story in a great vacation. “On Among the many aspects of Basque culture that O’Brien enjoyed was Txakoli , the dry, white wine made from the Hondarrabi Zuri grape. (A A rosé version from a related grape is more prominent on the export market than it is in the wine’s home region.)

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Spritz Recipes for Summer Imbibing

Imbibe Magazine

From its Italian origins in the 19th century—when supposedly the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire would purportedly dilute the wines of the Veneto region with a splash (or spritz in German) of soda water—to the modern ubiquity of the Aperol Spritz, the loosely defined cocktail has proved its staying power.

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