Recipe from Gourmet magazine - where do I get sweet red vermouth?

[Antonia]

I want to make this shrimp recipe and it calls for sweet red vermouth. I looked on the wine aisle of the two grocery stores I frequent. Do I need to go to a specialty grocery store or a liquor store? I think it is considered a wine.

 

[hoosll]

In Virginia it is sold as a wine so I guess it could be a wine in NC, try near the sherrys and apperitff wines

 

[Buzz's Girl]

Look for Cinzano or Martini & Rossi. Both make sweet red vermouth. Vermouth is just wine infused with herbs. I've substituted sweet or dry wines for sweet and dry vermouths and was fine.

 

[Ciao Mickey]

I want to make this shrimp recipe and it calls for sweet red vermouth. I looked on the wine aisle of the two grocery stores I frequent. Do I need to go to a specialty grocery store or a liquor store? I think it is considered a wine.

You can get vermouth at any liquor store.

Please don't substitute. There is a reason why they are calling for that particular wine.

 

[Antonia]

I don't plan to substitute. Tomorrow I'll go to the liquor store to see if they have it. Won't be my first trip to the liquor store for something I am cooking!!!

 

[wnissen]

Sweet vermouth and red vermouth are synonymous. Either characteristic distinguishes it from dry vermouth, which is clear and, containing little sugar, "dry." As it is fairly low in alcohol, it is usually in the wine section, with the sherries.

If you want to substitute, I think a ruby or tawny "port" or a sweet Marsala would be excellent choices. Cream sherry would also work, but that's starting to get far afield.

After you make the dish, be sure to use your new-found vermouth and make yourself a Manhattan!

Walt

 

[tink_n_pooh]

Vermouth would normally be found in a liquor store no?

Why am I answering... I'm from Jersey where you have to go to liquor store to get any type of alcoholic beverage