San Geminiano Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale Balsamic Vinegar
Since 1982, Corti Brothers has offered the traditional balsamic vinegar
from the San Geminiano estate in
Reggio Emilia. This estate supplied us with the first Aceto Balsamico
Tradizionale offered in the U.S. Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale is the
only, genuine balsamic vinegar. Made from saba, boiled down grape
juice, and aged very slowly over many years in small casks of different
aromatic woods, it must be expensive. Truly an amalgam of scents and
flavors, there is nothing like Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale. Once
you taste it, you rarely forget it. There is a slightly different type of vinegar, much younger, but
no less useful, which is the Condimento
Balsamico, made also from boiled down grape juice, but only
three or so years old. It differs from the Balsamico di Modena in
so far as the Condimento Balsamico must be based on boiled down grape
juice while the Modena example can be based on wine vinegar. San Geminiano also produces a blended
product called Mix for Salad and Cooking. This is a blend
of 1/5 1970 based production Tradizionale and 4/5 old wine vinegar.
Since Tradizionale is not used exclusively in dressing a salad–it
is blended with good vinegar–the Mix is very useful and less
expensive than the same Tradizionale bottled pure. If you have not
tasted authentic Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale,
this is your opportunity to do so, or at least regale a friend who
might share the gift.
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