La Fuerza Vermouth Rojo

La Fuerza is an Argentine independent project that creates drinks and food experiences with a strong local identity. La Fuerza was created by Julian Diaz, Agustin Camps, Sebastian Zuccardi and Martin Auzmendi, who met and dreamt about creating the Vermouth of the Andes.

Each bottle of La Fuerza Vermouth contains five ingredients: wine, botanicals and natural herbs, wine brandy and natural grape must.

Wine and brandy are made in Mendoza from Malbec and Torrontes grapes. The botanists are from different parts of the country and the wild herbs are collected at the foothills of the Andes.

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La Fuerza Vermouths are the result of a collaboration between a vermouth bar named “La Fuerza” and “Familia Zuccardi”, the oldest family-owned winery in Argentina. Vermouth is an intrinsic part of the drinks culture of Argentina, with the majority of the Argentine population being of Italian and Spanish descent. The vermouths drunk here have historically been imported, (mainly from Italy), La Fuerza was the starting point of a new wave of domestically produced vermouths of which we are proud to say, we were the first stockists in the in the North of England!

Fortified with Argentinian grape brandy, the base wines for the La Fuerza vermouths are straight from Zuccardi’s own winery. Aromatically powerful Torrontes for the white with its heady aromas of pineapple and honeysuckle, Malbec for the red vermouth which makes this one of the few sweet vermouths actually made using a red wine. The botanicals are all sourced within the borders of Argentina including Andean wormwood as the bittering agent. In Argentina, there is an obsession with Fernet Branca, the intensely bitter mint liqueur, because of this, La Fuerza does have a delightfully menthol hint to its flavour profile across both the red and the white expressions.

The red expression is great served in a goblet with ice and a slice of orange but it also makes a marvellous negroni. Serve the white again in a goblet with ice, but garnish with a slice of grapefruit and a mint sprig, for a long drink, serve it up equal parts with chilled jasmine tea.