Vermouth tasting at La Canellese

The Sconfienza family started out making barrels in 1890 and switched to vermouth in 1947, and they still crush the botanicals in an old hammer mill and steep them slowly in local Cortese wine. La Canellese is their vermouth and liqueur house in Calamandrana, in the hills between Langhe and Monferrato. Stop by and you taste the range with the makers themselves — Vermut di Torino (rosso, bianco, extra dry and superiore), Vermut Chinato and Barolo Chinato, plus bitters and aromatic-wine liqueurs. It's a drinks house, not a still-wine estate, so call or write ahead to arrange a visit.

Run by La Canellese