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DISTILLERIES
Balsam
DISTILLERY OVERVIEW
Balsam is a groundbreaking American Amaro that can also turn any wine into a tailor-made
vermouth. Crafted by Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries, using Boyd & Blair 151 Vodka as the base,
Balsam Amaro is made with over 30 ingredients, including herbs, roots, spices, wormwood,
pure cane sugar, rare teas, and artisanal spirits.
A delicious Amaro on its own, Balsam now stands to reinvent the luxury vermouth category.
It is the world’s first ‘Spirit of Vermouth’ whereby customers have everything that is in
traditional Sweet Italian Vermouth (including the wormwood for which Vermouth is named)
with one exception: the wine. When one part Balsam Amaro is added to three parts wine, the
result is a wormwood-based sweet vermouth with a bittersweet balance, ideal for making a
classic Manhattan, Negroni, or Americano cocktail. Vermouth goes stale quickly, but Balsam
solves this problem and even enhances the final product: it turns wine into vermouth with
a few drops.
DISTILLING PHILOSOPHY
A base of Champagne yeast fermented Pennsylvania potatoes is distilled in a copper pot
to 151 proof and filtered through coconut shell charcoal to create a luxuriously smooth and
powerful canvas. This base is infused with a proprietary blend of Rare Tea Cellar Pu-erh teas,
dried fruits, exotic citrus, whole spices, wormwood, and European roots and herbs traditional
to 18th century vermouth formulations.
Owned by:
Adam Seger, Barry Young, and Rodrick Markus
Master Distiller:
Barry Young
Founded in:
2014
Region:
Pennsylvania
Country:
Unites States
Spirits:
Balsam, Amaro Americano