Antonio Benedetto Carpano is credited with the second vermouth recipe .
The person credited with inventing the vermouth recipe , Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin , Italy , chose to name his concoction `` vermouth '' in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavoured with wormwood , a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.  ? main_page=product_info & products_id=269wermut at BEOLINGUS and Wiktionary The modern German word Wermut ( Wermuth in the spelling of Carpano 's time ) means both wormwood and vermouth .
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