Vermouth is a fortified wine, flavored with aromatic herbs and spices ("aromatized" in the trade) such as cardamom, cinnamon, marjoram and chamomile. Some vermouth is sweetened; unsweetened, or "dry" vermouth tends to be bitter. The person credited with inventing the vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction "vermouth" in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavoured with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe. The modern German word Wermut (Wermuth in the spelling of Carpano's time) means both wormwood and vermouth. The herbs in vermouth were originally used to mask raw flavours of cheaper wines, imparting a slightly medicinal "tonic" flavour. There are three general styles of vermouth, in order from driest to sweetest: extra dry, bianco/white, and sweet/red. Sweet red vermouth is drunk as an apéritif, often straight up, as well as in mixed drinks like the Manhattan. Dry white vermouth, along with gin, is a key ingredient in the mixing of martinis. Red vermouths are sometimes referred to as Italian vermouths and white vermouths as French vermouths, although not all Italian vermouths are red and not all French vermouths are white.

Drinks made with Italian Vermouth (Sweet):

1. Artillery Cocktail
2. Barking Dog
3. Baron Cocktail
4. Berry Wall Cocktail
5. Bijou Cocktail
6. Bill Lyken's Delight
7. Blackthorn
8. Bloodhound Cocktail
9. Bronx Cocktail
10. Chappelle Cocktail
11. Charleston Cocktail
12. Chorus Lady Cocktail
13. Club Cocktail
14. Cooperstown Cocktail
15. Cordova Cocktail
16. Damn-the-Weather Cocktail
17. Fantasio Cocktail No. 2
18. Fernet Branca Cocktail
19. Fourth Degree
20. Golden Ermine Cocktail
21. Guard's Cocktail
22. Gypsy Cocktail
23. Hakam Cocktail
24. Hanky Panky Cocktail
25. H.P.W. Cocktail
26. Harry's Cocktail
27. Homestead Cocktail
28. Hotel Plaza Cocktail
29. Hugo Special
30. Ideal Cocktail
31. Income Tax Cocktail
32. Jack Withers Cocktail
33. Bijou (Jewel) Cocktail
34. Jeyplak Cocktail
35. J.O.S. Cocktail
36. Journalist Cocktail
37. Kina Cocktail
38. Knickerbocker Cocktail
39. Leap Year Cocktail
40. Lone Tree Cocktail
41. Lord Soffolk Cocktail
42. Flying Scotchman Cocktail
43. Martini Cocktail (Medium)
44. Martini Cocktail (Sweet)
45. Martini Cocktail (Special)
46. Million Dollar Cocktail
47. Minnehaha Cocktail
48. Newbury Cocktail
49. No. 6 Cocktail
50. Noon Cocktail
51. One Exciting Night Cocktail
52. One of Mine
53. Orange Bloom Cocktail
54. Pall Mall Cocktail
55. Perfect Cocktail
56. Peto Cocktail
57. Ping-Pong Special Cocktail
58. Pollyanna Cocktail
59. Polo Cocktail No. 1
60. Los Angeles Cocktail
61. Queen Cocktail
62. Queen's Cocktail
63. R.A.C. Special Cocktail
64. Rolls Royce Cocktail
65. Rosington Cocktail
66. Sandmartin Cocktail
67. Satan's Whiskers Cocktail (Straight)
68. Satan's Whiskers Cocktail (Curled)
69. Creole Cocktail
70. Seventh Regiment Cocktail
71. Smiler Cocktail
72. So-So Cocktail
73. John Wood Cocktail
74. Star Cockail No. 1
75. Sunshine Cocktail No. 1
76. Tango Cocktail
77. Trilby Cocktail No. 1
78. Trinity Cocktail
79. Hot Deck Cocktail
80. Twin Six Cocktail
81. Velocity Cocktail
82. Victor Cocktail
83. "Hoots Mon" Cocktail
84. Warday's Cocktail
85. Weesuer Special Cocktail
86. Westbrook Cocktail
87. Harry Lauder Cocktail
88. Yachting Club Cocktail
89. Yellow Rattler Cocktail
90. Yolanda Cocktail
91. Affinity Cocktail
92. Alice Cocktail
93. Blood and Sand Cocktail
94. Bobby Burns Cocktail
95. Manhattan Cocktail (Dry)
96. Manhattan Cocktail (Sweet)
97. Mickie Walker Cocktail
98. Mountain Cocktail
99. New 1920 Cocktail
100. Opening Cocktail
101. Oppenheim Cocktail
102. Oriental Cocktail
103. Paddy Cocktail
104. Thistle Cocktail
105. Tipperary Cocktail
106. Trilby Cocktail No. 2
107. Whisper Cocktail
108. Manhattan (Sweet)
109. Duchess Cocktail
110. Macaroni Cocktail
111. Picon Cocktail
112. Kenny
113. Star Cocktail
114. Fair and Warmer Cocktail
115. Kicker Cocktail
116. Little Princess Cocktail
117. Maragato Cocktail (Special)
118. Poker Cocktail
119. Sevilla Cocktail No. 1
120. Bombay Cocktail No. 2
121. Brandy Vermouth Cocktail
122. Carrol Cocktail
123. Charles Cocktail
124. Cold Deck Cocktail
125. Corpse Reviver No. 1
126. Depth Bomb Cocktail
127. Froupe Cocktail
128. Gazette Cocktail
129. Harvard Cocktail
130. Iris Cocktail
131. Metropolitan Cocktail
132. Nick's Own Cocktail
133. Presto Cocktail
134. Queen Elizabeth Cocktail (Brandy)
135. Ray Long Cocktail
136. Bronx Terrace Cocktail
137. Kup's Indispensable Cocktail
138. Maurice Cocktail
139. Rob Roy Cocktail
140. Inca Cocktail
141. Weesuer Special Cocktail
142. Bobby Burns Cocktail