Cinzano is an Italian

Italy

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 brand

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 of vermouth

Vermouth

Vermouth is a fortified wine flavored with various dry ingredients. The modern versions of the beverage were first produced around the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Italy and France...

, a brand owned since 1999 by Gruppo Campari

Campari Group

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. It comes in four versions:

• Cinzano Rosso, which is amber-coloured;
• Cinzano Bianco, which is white and drier than Rosso, yet still considered a sweet vermouth;
• Cinzano Extra Dry, a dry vermouth;
• Cinzano Rosé, the newest of the four, rosy-coloured with orange highlights

Cinzano vermouths date back to 1757 and the Turin herbal shop of two brothers, Giovanni Giacomo and Carlo Stefano Cinzano, who created a new "vermouth rosso" (red vermouth) using "aromatic plants from the Italian Alps in a [still-secret] recipe combining 35 ingredients (including marjoram

Marjoram

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, thyme

Thyme

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 and [a species of Achillea

Achillea

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called] musk yarrow)".