Vermouth is generally classified between either of two types: sweet or dry. The sweet kind is dark and typically red in color, and it originates from Italy. It has a sugar content of up to 15% ...

and some pale vermouths are semi-sweet rather than dry. The cocktail renaissance of recent decades shone a light on vermouth styles and brands old and new. Noilly Prat Vermouth Original Dry ...

It started sweet, with more vermouth in the ratio, but moved drier as tastes changed over the 20th century. More than the sum of its fluid parts, a martini is a symbol — it lives in our heads ...