Vermouth, or vermut, is a fortified wine liquor. It starts with a base ... but it is well-known that one medicinal herb called artemisia, or wormwood, is almost always a part of the recipe ...

In German, wormwood is called wermut, the French pronunciation of which is “vermouth.” Most often, the base wine for vermouth is white, but depending on the ingredients that infuse the wine ...

Vermouth, derived from the German word meaning wormwood, is wine flavored with spices and botanicals. Many have pinpointed vermouth's origins to ancient Greece where it was used medicinally by ...

Wormwood is a bitter herb and an ingredient in the alcoholic drink absinthe. It may have antimicrobial properties, relieve pain, stimulate digestion, and more. However, it contains thujone, a ...

There’s also evidence that the ancient Greeks drank something called “absinthites oinos”, a wormwood-flavoured wine. It’s not until Switzerland in the late 18th century that the current ...

The wormwood plant from which absinthe is made is not native to Switzerland, but probably arrived with the Romans.