How and Where to Drink Vermouth in Barcelona

The people of Spain approach daytime drinking with zeal and elegance. A way to enliven any afternoon, rather than the preserve of holidays alone. And in Catalonia these occasions tend to entail vermouth, or vermut in local parlance. As unlike most, who engage with it in cocktails alone, a negroni or gibson Martini, for example, they embrace its bittersweet charms frequently and on their own terms with just ice, seltzer and a slice or olive, for company. Then again,…