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
St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs railway station by AC overhead lines and to the south by DC third rail. In 2009 local authority leaders lobbied the government to build a new station a short distance to the north of the disused one, however, such plans have not materialised. St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs railway station St. Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs was a railway station on the West London Railway in Kensal Green north-west London. It was situated on an embankment next to North Pole Road, close to the road's junction with Wood Lane, and near Wormwood Scrubs, in what is now the London Borough of