Mancino Sakura Vermouth
Mancino Sakura Vermouth is Giancarlo Mancino's Japanese-inspired limited vermouth — 18% ABV, 500mL, an Italian white-wine base aromatised with twenty botanicals headlined by Kyoto cherry blossom and Italian violet, bottled pink and made in small annual quantities. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- ABV: 18% (see applier flag)
- Size: 500mL
- Botanicals: 20, including cherry blossom and violet
- Sweetness: 130 g/l sugar (label: 13 g/100ml)
- Production: Limited — about 4,000 bottles a year
- Origin: Canelli, Piedmont, Italy (Mancino Vermouth)
Kyoto Blossom in a Piedmont Bottle
Every vermouth house has a classic range; Sakura is where Mancino steps outside it. The inspiration is Japanese — cherry blossom sourced from Kyoto, the flower of hanami season — married to an Italian violet note and the house's wormwood-bitter backbone, over an Italian white-wine base. The result pours pale pink and drinks floral without going soft: the blossom and violet lead, the bitterness closes. It is made in genuinely small quantities, around four thousand bottles a year, and it disappears accordingly. Find it with the rest of the house in our liqueurs collection, or see all four bottlings on the Mancino Vermouth vendor page.
Tasting Notes
Nose: Cherry blossom and violet over white flowers (official register). Palate: Floral and delicately fruity, the blossom carried on a sweet vermouth frame. Finish: Wormwood bitterness — the house signature keeping the florals honest.
How to Enjoy
Over ice with a splash of soda and a citrus twist for the aperitivo hour, or as the vermouth in a white Negroni where its florals do the talking. Keep the pours small and the bottle cold; it is a 500mL limited bottling.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Sakura mean? Cherry blossom in Japanese — the blossom, sourced from Kyoto, is the headline botanical, paired with Italian violet in a vermouth that crosses the two traditions.
Is Mancino Sakura a regular product? It is a limited expression made in small annual quantities (about 4,000 bottles a year), so availability comes and goes between releases.
Is it sweet? Moderately — 130 g/l of sugar, less than the house's Bianco Ambrato, with a wormwood-bitter finish that keeps the floral character dry at the end.
Blossom, violet and wormwood — order Mancino Sakura Vermouth online from Del Mesa Liquor, San Diego, CA.