Vermouth truth: your guide to world vermouths
Imagine yourself on the high, arid Iranian plateau around 5,400 BCE. The Copper Age has started to the west, and agricultural practices have swept across the region, stabilizing food sources for the first time. Now you’ve checked off food and shelter on your cave art checklist, what’s next on your list of necessities?
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Wine.
And in fact, archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest-known wine jar with traces of herbs in Tepe Hajji Firuz, Iran, along Turkey’s eastern border near Iran’s 10th largest city, known as the “Paris of Iran”, Urmia.
Keep reading this post at our blog, Crafted with Characters, where we document the history of whiskey, the best cocktails featuring this superb spirit, and the uncharted territory before us as a craft distillery in the US. Whisk(ey) me away to the post, with haste.
