Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale DOP ◆

Vinaigre balsamique traditionnel de Modène DOP

What it is

Cooked grape must works its way down a battery of casks — oak, cherry, chestnut, mulberry, juniper — each year giving a little to the barrel below and taking a little from the one above, for twelve years at the very least. Every bottle the tasting panel passes is sold in the same 100 ml bulb, a shape drawn by the car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro.

In the kitchen

It is already cooked, so it goes on at the table and never in the pan: a scant teaspoon over parmesan, strawberries or a rib of beef once it is off the fire. Anything you would pour is not this product.

Goes with

Parmesan Strawberry Prosciutto di Parma Rib of beef Fig Pear

Same species

Amontillado Armagnac Banyuls Brandy de Jerez Champagne vinegar Cognac

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