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
Wormwood (Bible) Wormwood (Bible) Wormwood (ἀψίνθιον "apsinthion" or ἄψινθος "apsinthos" in Greek) is a star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation. Wormwood is mentioned seven times in the Hebrew Bible, always with the implication of bitterness. The word "wormwood" appears several times in the Old Testament, translated from the Hebrew term לענה ("la'anah", which means "curse" in Hebrew). "Wormwood" is only mentioned once in the Book of Revelation: Revelation 8 verse 10. "The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the