Sweet Vermouth cocktails
Aged in wood and laced with botanicals, sweet vermouth lends richness and a bittersweet backbone to some of the most enduring cocktails in the canon — from the Manhattan and Negroni to the brooding depths of a Vieux Carré.
12 classic recipes from our canon that use sweet vermouth — Sweet Vermouth sits in our liqueurs & fortified shelf.
Negroni
Equal parts bitter, botanical and sweet — a ruby aperitivo with a spine.
Ingredients
- ◆30 ml gin
- ◆30 ml campari
- ◆30 ml sweet vermouth
Manhattan
Rye and sweet vermouth, stirred down cold — elegant, spirit-forward, classic.
Ingredients
- ◆50 ml rye whiskey
- ◆20 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆1 dash angostura bitters
Boulevardier
Bourbon, Campari and sweet vermouth — the Negroni's richer, whiskey-drinking sibling.
Ingredients
- ◆45 ml bourbon
- ◆30 ml campari
- ◆30 ml sweet vermouth
Americano
Campari and sweet vermouth lengthened with soda — the bittersweet ancestor of the Negroni.
Ingredients
- ◆30 ml campari
- ◆30 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆to top club soda
Martinez
Gin and sweet vermouth with maraschino and bitters — the missing link to the Martini.
Ingredients
- ◆45 ml gin
- ◆45 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆1 bar spoon maraschino liqueur
- ◆2 dashes orange bitters
Hanky Panky
Equal gin and sweet vermouth lifted by a dose of Fernet — bittersweet and bracing.
Ingredients
- ◆45 ml gin
- ◆45 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆7 ml fernet
Vieux Carré
Rye, cognac, vermouth and Bénédictine, double-bittered — a layered New Orleans sipper.
Ingredients
- ◆30 ml rye whiskey
- ◆30 ml cognac
- ◆30 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆1 bar spoon benedictine
- ◆2 dashes peychaud's bitters
Remember the Maine
A Manhattan laced with cherry and absinthe — dark, spiced and a little mysterious.
Ingredients
- ◆rinse absinthe
- ◆60 ml rye whiskey
- ◆22 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆15 ml cherry liqueur
Tipperary
Irish whiskey, sweet vermouth and green Chartreuse, stirred — herbal, lush and underrated.
Ingredients
- ◆50 ml irish whiskey
- ◆25 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆15 ml green chartreuse
- ◆2 dashes angostura bitters
Rabo de Galo
Cachaça stirred with sweet vermouth and Cynar — Brazil's bittersweet answer to the Manhattan.
Ingredients
- ◆60 ml cachaca
- ◆20 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆15 ml cynar
- ◆2 drops angostura bitters
Negroni Sbagliato
A Negroni 'mistaken' with sparkling wine instead of gin — lighter, fizzier, just as ruby.
Ingredients
- ◆30 ml campari
- ◆30 ml sweet vermouth
- ◆60 ml prosecco
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