Alessio Vino Chinato Vermouth

”product information – alessio vino chinato is a premium italian aperitif wine made with the fi nest nebbiolo d’alba grapes – the same grape varietal used in the highly acclaimed barolo wines that have been cultivated in the piedmont region of italy since the middle ages – cinchona bark (quinine) is added to the wine to add an herbaceous and beautiful bitter note – enjoy chilled on its own before or after a meal brand information girolamo ruscelli a true renaissance man of the 16th century was an italian physician alchemist humanist inventor cartographer and a founder of the ‘academy of secrets’ the fi rst recorded example of an experimental scientifi c society. In 1555 he assembled one of the greatest manuals of ancient curative recipes the secrets of alexis of piedmont under his pseudonym alessio piemontese. The recipes many of which were previously banned hidden or lost by the church during the dark ages included several elixirs which appear as distinct ancestors