For reasons not worth explaining, I was given several bottles of Martini & Rossi Asti this holiday season. I have no plans to drink any of it. It’s 8% alcohol by volume. Does anyone know if this stuff would be suitable to...

" that I so dislike in Martini Rossi and the like. It’s subtler and disappears in the drinks very quickly, requiring more vermouth IMO than other brands.

't understand any need to spend more for mixing. White rum: Almost any cheap brand tastes less harsh than Bacardi! Ron Rico, Ron Diaz. Whiskey: ? Vermouth: Here, compromise does not pay. At least get Noilly Prat or Martini and Rossi...

out. Vermouth goes off after a while and it’s cheap anyway. Go for Martini and Rossi for the sweet and Noilly Prat for the dry if your liquor store carries it. Otherwise, M&R for both. - Orange juice. Everyone seems to love...

. For example, Martini & Rossi — or is it Cinzano? — makes an Asti Spumante that is Kosher for Passover, and some wine shops will bring a couple of cases in time for the Passover Seder. You don’t see it much...

) ——- Vermouth Martini & Rossi extra dry Vermouth ~3/4 cup left ——- Whiskey Maker’s Mark (almost full – upper cabinet) Woodford Reserve (full) Glenfiddich Special Reserve Scotch Whiskey (3/4 full)...

pineapple. A favorite summer drink for me is to add crushed ice and chopped oranges and grapefruit to a glass of Asti Spumante from Martini (formerly and Rossi) — very refreshing!

a serviceable brand (La Serra??) besides the ubiquitous Martini & Rossi d’Asti.

Yeah, I often use Vermouth because as a martini drinker I’ve always got some around. I recently started buying Moilly Prat and I think I do prefer it to the Martini and Rossi.

Martini and Rossi, but I’d be very happy to hear other suggestions.

with MArtini & Rossi and so forth and so on. Well, that is another fight. My starting point for all such bibulous archaeology is “The Gentleman's Companion” by Charles H. Baker, Jr. (1939 edition). On page 37 of Volume...

and Canelli, the Spumante capitals with the big name houses (Gancia, Tosti, Martini and Rossi etc)

, not necessarily because I think it would go well with blood orange vodka. Club Soda Coke Ginger Ale Milk Tart Cherry Juice Limes (lots of them!) Martini i Rossi Asti spumante Bottle of Zinfandel 1/2 bottle of Boujelais-Villages Brugal...

Martini and Rossi Asti Spumante

, but I have a problem with a restaurant that brags that it is sophisticated. Rossi has good food. Barley’s http://barleysbrewing.com/downtown/index.htm was a brew pub before those things sprung up on every block.