An apéritif is an alcoholic beverage usually served before a meal to stimulate the appetite, and is therefore usually dry rather than sweet. Common choices for an apéritif are vermouth; champagne; pastis; gin; rakı; fino, amontillado or other styles of dry sherry (but not usually cream or oloroso sherry, which is very sweet and rich); and any still, dry, light white wine.

Vermouth is produced by starting with a base of a neutral grape wine or unfermented wine must. Each manufacturer adds additional alcohol and a proprietary mixture of dry ingredients, consisting of aromatic herbs, roots, and barks, to the base wine, base wine plus spirit or spirit only – which may be redistilled before adding to the wine or unfermented wine must. After the wine is aromatized and fortified, the vermouth is sweetened with either cane sugar or caramelized sugar, depending on the style.

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Underberg (2cl, 44%)

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Skinos Mastiha Spirit (70cl, 30%)

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Skinos Mastiha is a Greek liqueur made using the resin from the mastiha tree on the Greek island of Chios. The resin is harvested by making small cuts in the tree, bringing out drops of the resin that are said to look like tears. The resulting liqueur created from the resin is highly fragrant, with earthy, leafy notes washing over your palate, joined by hints of sweetness bringing balance. It’s often served chilled and alongside food, whether it be meze dishes or accompanying a cold dessert.

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Skinos Mastiha Spirit (5cl, 30%)

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Skinos Mastiha is a Greek liqueur made using the resin from the mastiha tree on the Greek island of Chios. The resin is harvested by making small cuts in the tree, bringing out drops of the resin that are said to look like tears. The resulting liqueur created from the resin is highly fragrant, with earthy, leafy notes washing over your palate, joined by hints of sweetness bringing balance. It’s often served chilled and alongside food, whether it be meze dishes or accompanying a cold dessert.

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Ricard Pastis (1L, 45%)

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Massively popular with the French, this is Marseille’s answer to Pernod, and is best served long with still mineral water and plenty of ice – a great aperitif.

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Pisang Ambon 1L, 17%

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Pisang Ambon is a Dutch liqueur from those ever-talented folks at Bols, based around a recipe from Indonesia. With its core of banana notes, complemented by a herbal medley, this’ll make for an excellent cocktail ingredient…

17.50

Pimms No1 (1L, 25%)

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The quintessentially English summertime drink. We love Pimm’s, and nothing better than a Number 1 cup on a hot summer’s day, made with cucumber, lemon, strawberries, mint and good quality lemonade. Pimm’s itself has a gin base, and offers subtle spices and citrus flavours. Delicious!

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Ouzo Plomari (70cl, 40%)

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The Plomari Ouzo Distillery Isidoros Arvanitis has relocated to a new site in the midst of a magnificent olive grove, but is still in picturesque Plomari, the place where Isidoros Arvanitis first created Ouzo of Plomari in 1894 and where it has been produced for over 100 years. The Distillery combines traditional distillation and production methods with the latest scientific bottling and packaging techniques. It consists of small, handmade copper stills, while all procedures are carried out under strictly controlled conditions rigorously observing all health regulations. The aniseed and fennel used in the distillation process are of a high quality and come from the Distillery’s own fields in Lisvori, Lesvos.

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Ouzo Plomari (20cl, 40%)

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The Plomari Ouzo Distillery Isidoros Arvanitis has relocated to a new site in the midst of a magnificent olive grove, but is still in picturesque Plomari, the place where Isidoros Arvanitis first created Ouzo of Plomari in 1894 and where it has been produced for over 100 years. The Distillery combines traditional distillation and production methods with the latest scientific bottling and packaging techniques. It consists of small, handmade copper stills, while all procedures are carried out under strictly controlled conditions rigorously observing all health regulations. The aniseed and fennel used in the distillation process are of a high quality and come from the Distillery’s own fields in Lisvori, Lesvos.

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Ouzo Plomari (1L, 40%)

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The Plomari Ouzo Distillery Isidoros Arvanitis has relocated to a new site in the midst of a magnificent olive grove, but is still in picturesque Plomari, the place where Isidoros Arvanitis first created Ouzo of Plomari in 1894 and where it has been produced for over 100 years. The Distillery combines traditional distillation and production methods with the latest scientific bottling and packaging techniques. It consists of small, handmade copper stills, while all procedures are carried out under strictly controlled conditions rigorously observing all health regulations. The aniseed and fennel used in the distillation process are of a high quality and come from the Distillery’s own fields in Lisvori, Lesvos.

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Ouzo Mitilinis Samara No Sugar 70cl, 40%

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No Sugar

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Ouzo Green Barbayannis (70cl, 42%)

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With respect to traditional distillation techniques, Barbayanni family produces Barbayanni Green Ouzo, from carefully selected fresh ingredients and the unique water of Plomari. Ouzo Barbayanni Green is a 100% pure distillate produced at 42% alcohol level.

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Ouzo Green Barbayannis (20cl, 42%)

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With respect to traditional distillation techniques, Barbayanni family produces Barbayanni Green Ouzo, from carefully selected fresh ingredients and the unique water of Plomari. Ouzo Barbayanni Green is a 100% pure distillate produced at 42% alcohol level.

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Ouzo BLue Barbayannis (70cl, 43%)

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Five generations of family Barbayanni create with love and knowledge, the classic Ouzo Blue, respecting the tradition that requires 100% distillation of ouzo and the family recipe brought by Efstathios Barbayannis in 1860

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Ouzo BLue Barbayannis (20cl, 43%)

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Five generations of family Barbayanni create with love and knowledge, the classic Ouzo Blue, respecting the tradition that requires 100% distillation of ouzo and the family recipe brought by Efstathios Barbayannis in 1860

12.50

Ouzo 12 (70cl, 38%)

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A classic Greek aniseed liqueur, produced originally by the Kaloynannis brothers. Legend is, those brothers made a multitude of different Ouzo recipes and found the one in Barrel Number 12 to be the best, hence the name. This is a 38% ABV bottling, a couple percent lower than previous bottlings.

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Martini Rosso (1L, 15%)

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Martini Rosso is claimed to be the world’s first vermouth. The distinctive colour is produced by the addition of caramel, which also tempers the bittersweet effect of the 50+ herbs and spices used in production.

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Martini Rosato (1L, 15%)

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A litre bottle of rosé Martini, made using both red and white wine, it is flavoured with cinnamon and cloves. Martini recommend serving it long over ice with pomegranate juice.

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Martini Extra Dry (1L, 15%)

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A litre bottle of Martioni Extra Dry Vermouth . This bestseller includes the usual Martini white wine base and herbal ingredients, but with a much reduced level of additional sugar for a dry, but not bitter, vermouth.

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Martini Bianco (1L, 15%)

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A litre bottle of classic aromatic medium-dry Italian vermouth from Turin, made by macerating Alpine herbs and vanilla with white wine, before sweetening and fortification.

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Keo Extra Fine Ouzo (50cl, 45%)

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Looking for something to serve alongside an appetiser of olives and cheeses? Why not try the KEO Extra Fine Ouzo, produced on the Island of Cyprus using star anise, fennel and liquorice. These intense, vibrant herbs ought to cut through the powerful flavours of the food rather enjoyably…

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Keo Extra Fine Ouzo (20cl, 45%)

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Looking for something to serve alongside an appetiser of olives and cheeses? Why not try the KEO Extra Fine Ouzo, produced on the Island of Cyprus using star anise, fennel and liquorice. These intense, vibrant herbs ought to cut through the powerful flavours of the food rather enjoyably…

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Fernet Branca (2cl, 39%)

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An Italian digestivo, Fernet-Branca is was created in 1845. It’s made from 27 different herbs and aged in oak for a year. The ingredients include aloes, gentian, rhubarb, cinchona bark and zedoary – all herbs from India and Indonesia.

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Dubonnet Rouge (75cl, 14.8%)

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A French aperitif made with wine from the south of France. This is flavoured with herbs, spices and quinine and is aged in oak for three years.

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Cocchi Storico Vermouth di Torino 75cl, 16%

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Vermouth di Torino is a collective heritage of Piedmont, which sees in the royal Savoy court as first big promoter of a product which, mainly starting from the late XVIII century, generated a flourishing industry which led Piedmont to become the Kingdom of Vermouth.

Storico Vermouth di Torino is still produced according to the original recipe of Giulio Cocchi. This vermouth belongs to the category of the sweet vermouths, or Italian vermouths, sweet and amber as indicated in the manuals of the late XIX century.
Storico Vermouth di Torino Cocchi has been the protagonist of the international rebirth of the top-of-the-range vermouths and the renovated interest of the great barmen for the denomination Vermouth di Torino so that it is also familiarly denominated “Cocchi Torino”.

In a very short time, it’s become one of the top-of-the-range Vermouths chosen in the best bars of the world.

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