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Buy OnlineCarpano opened a wine bar in Turin in the late 18th century and in 1786, began serving Carpano, a wine he had fortified and infused with sweetening herbs. This was to become the first commercial sweet vermouth in history. As legend has it, nearly a century later, in 1870, a stockbroker ordered a sweet vermouth from his nephew with an extra point-and-a-half of bitterness to reflect his loss on the market that day – and the rest is history.
Many decades later, until being bombed in the Second World War, the drink remained immensely popular at the Carpano bar where patrons would order it with a mere gesture of the hand – a raised thumb drawing a horizontal line in the air (a stockbroker's signal for a point-and-a-half).
Punt e Mes has a golden orange colour with topaz tones, herby aromas and dark red, black dahlia with vermilion shades. The initial taste is one of sweetness, characterised by an intriguing accent of orange. This is followed by the characteristically bitter taste of the quina and ends on a sweet note.
