Fortified wine because he was inspired by a German wine flavoured with wormwood, an herb most famously used in distilling absinthe. However, wine flavoured with wormwood goes back to ancient Rome. The modern German word "Wermut" ("Wermuth" in the spelling of Carpano's time) means both "wormwood" and "vermouth". The herbs were originally used to mask raw flavours of cheaper wines, imparting a slightly medicinal "tonic" flavor. Vins doux naturels are lightly fortified wines typically made from white Muscat grapes or red Grenache grapes in the south of France. The production of vins doux naturels was perfected by Arnaud de Villeneuve at the
What Time Is Love? riff from "What Time Is Love?". In 1993 "What Time Is Love?" was covered by U.K. based American Noise/Art Rock band The God Machine. The track appeared as a B- side on their limited silver vinyl "Home" single and a promo CD. In 1997 a trance cover-version was released by German producer Talla 2XLC and in 1998 Choci and Mark Sinclair released their own hard trance reworking entitled "What is Love?". Reviewing Drummond's book "45" for "The Observer" in 2000, Steven Poole labelled "What Time Is Love?" an "epic pop masterpiece". "The Observer" also described the "Pure Trance Original" as