The Family Vermouth Story

The small batch of bottles I made for Christmas 2023 ended up bringing me back to something I had long forgotten.

One of the bottles went to my parents. After tasting it, my mother started telling me stories about her parents – my maternal grandparents, Ann and Bertie Gray. Apparently, they had a serious fondness for vermouth.

Vermouth was incredibly fashionable in the mid-1900s, but by the time the 1970s arrived it had fallen out of favour for many drinkers. Not for Ann and Bertie though. For them it remained a firm favourite.