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Packsize | 6/16.9 OZ |
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The flavor profile of a balsamic vinegar is defined by its must content. The more must, the sweeter the taste. Modenaceti Classic sets the highest standards for a Balsamic Vinegar of Modena for salads. It is matured balsamic vinegar with a slightly tart-taste profile that enhances all types of salads.
A unique creation from 3-Michelin Star chef, Massimo Bottura, the delectable aroma and taste comes from aging traditional balsamic vinegar with prized Vignola cherry wood, resulting in a balsamic vinegar infused with a luscious cherry flavor! It’s delicious!
Acetaia Leonardi’s Saba is unique. The family’s Trebbiano and Lambrusco grapes are grown in the 7 hectares surrounding the family home and acetaia. After a gentle crushing, the juice and pulp is coarsely filtered and the mosto (mash),is cooked (cotto) in an open copper vat at 175-200°F for a day or two, reducing it to about a third the volume. The concentrated mosto cotto is then cooled and placed in large oak casks which were previously inoculated with a mother of vinegar, a batch of vinegar alive with a culture of aceto-bacteria. The Saba will stay in the casks for almost 4 years, giving a deep complexity to the Saba, without converting it to vinegar.
Very few producers (if any) can have a batteria made entirely of precious cherry wood. Ciliegio (cherry) is a limited-number bottling from a 20-year travassi barrel of a batteria made entirely of cherry-wood barrels. Do you remember the smell of a freshly baked cherry pie? That is the first image that comes to mind along with freshly picked amarene (sour cherries). Sweet, clean and very aromatic.
The sweet Trebbiano grape must is reduced until a delicate golden color, then transferred to oak barrels previously acidified by mother vinegar in order for it to generate the acidification process.
The 12 year balsamic from Fattoria Estense originates from the Gran Riserva cask at the farm in Modena, Italy. It is also produced using a traditional process, and stored in an elegant glass bottle with a wooden/cork stopper branded with the wax mark of Fattoria Estense. You will find this balsamic vinegar to be creamy, sweet and dense with a perfect final hint of its 6% acidity. This vinegar will definitely have you coming back for more.