Carpano

Turin-based company producing the first Italian Vermouth invented in 1786 by Antonio Benedetto Carpano, later founder of the company that bore his name. The name was chosen rearranging the German word Wermut that means "absinthe". In the Carpano workshop, in 1870, was also invented the Punt e Mes that is still the flagship product of the company. The name comes from the Piedmontese and means "one and a half": a group of stockbrokers returning from a trading session, where the index had risen to just one and a half, they went to the Carpano shop and ordered a "punt e mes", a sweet Vermouth with a half bitter. Currently, the company was acquired by the group Fratelli Branca.