Giusti Il Profumato Balsamic ~ Gift Boxed Anforina
Giusti Il Profumato Balsamic ~ Gift Boxed Anforina is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Description
Description
Il Profumato has an intense bouquet of aromas, perfectly balanced with a pleasant balsamic acidity. With a great density and persistence of perfumes, it adds colour and enriches a wide variety of dishes.
The balsamic vinegar is beautifully presented in traditional 250ml glass anforina bottles, sealed by hand with rope and wax. The bottles are packaged in cylindrical boxes and make a lovely gift for any foodie.
Ingredients: Must of cooked grapes, aged wine vinegar.
Aging: In French oak barrels, named Grands Tonneaux, from the 1900s.
Producer
Producer
The Giusti family have been producing balsamic in the traditional way in Modena since 1605. They are the oldest and most awarded producer of balsamic and have an unrivalled collection of antique barrels still in use.
Giusti select good quality Trebbiano and Lambrusco grapes and slowly reduce the grape juice in copper kettles until it is thick, dark and sweet. Unlike industrially produced balsamic vinegar, Giusti do not use pressurisation to speed up the reduction process. It is a labour of time and patience.
Giusti add only good quality wine vinegar to the cooked grape must, and then age it in traditional barrels of various woods - juniper, cherry, oak, ash, and mulberry. Each wood infuses the balsamic with its own unique flavour and aroma. Giusti have over 1000 barrels in use - 600 of which are over 200 years old. Many industrial producers have only a few barrels and large, stainless steel silos.
As the balsamic ages, it ferments, and the liquid evaporates. Each barrel is then topped up with balsamic from another barrel of different wood. Because each barrel contains a blend of vinegars from other barrels, it is impossible to determine the age of the balsamic in any one barrel.
For Giusti’s specially dispensed reserve balsamics, they are in a unique position where they can extract small quantities from their very old reserves. Here Giusti can be quite sure of the minimum age of the must as when these barrels are topped up, they are done so only with older vinegar, not young must. Due to the blending process, these reserves will also include must that is older than the specified age. Other producers do not have these ancient barrels and reserves. Gisuti are meticulous in their blending process and track everything; for them producing balsamic is a craft, not just a commercial enterprise.
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Giusti has been a part of the Sabato family for over 25 years. Their premium balsamic vinegar is a product of tradition and passion perfected over the last four centuries. Today, their balsamic vinegars are unrivalled as they are produced in over 1000 aged barrels - many of them over 200 years old! With a...