Vermouth, just a spoonful of sugar...

There’s a quiet revival going on in unexpected corners of the wine world. It’s a revival of a wine so old-fashioned that it’s ancient; and so ancient that although it’s creation has been credited to Hippocrates, he was in fact a late adopter. The Indians were making it 500 years before he was, and the Chinese over a thousand years before that. It was, for hundreds of years, the everyday equivalent of a packet of Rennies and a box of aspirin, taken for fevers and aches, indigestion and intestinal disorders, injuries, toothache, skin...