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Liquor · Vermouth/Amari/Apertifs
Atxa Vino Vermouth Dry
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Pay online, pick up at the shop, 2690 Broadway. Ready in about 2 hours during pickup hours. Orders placed after 5:30 PM (4:30 PM on Sunday) are ready the next day from 10:30 AM (11:30 AM Sunday).
The tasting card
- Alcohol
- 18%
- Size
- 750 ml
- Importer
- De Maison Selections, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
- Category
- Dry vermouth (vino vermouth)
- Producer
- Destilerías Acha
- Distillery
- Destilerías Acha, Amurrio (Álava)
- Region
- Basque Country, Spain
- Mash bill
- Hondarrabi zuri Txakoli wine base; botanicals include gentian, Roman wormwood, bitter orange, marjoram, rosemary, thyme and wild herbs
- How it is made
- The botanicals are steeped in aguardiente from a copper pot still, and the infusion is blended into a Txakoli base wine of hondarrabi zuri. The recipe brings back Manuel Acha's original dry vermouth.
- Classic cocktails
- Martini and Negroni variations; Spritz; Bamboo; Perfect Manhattan; Old Pal; low-alcohol highball with soda or tonic
Tasting note
Dry and savoury, with bright herb aromas of rosemary, marjoram, wormwood and thyme that call to mind an Alpine herb liqueur. Full and vinous on the palate, and truly dry without turning lean.
About this bottle
Destilerías Acha was founded in Bilbao in 1831 by a Frenchman, Paúl Pomes, and moved to Amurrio in the Ayala Valley in 1880. Distillery manager Manuel Acha bought the business in 1886 and his family still runs it; Gabriel Acha took over in 2002 and turned the house back toward Basque classics such as vermouth.