hello everyone i'm nimon welcome to my youtube channel in this video i'm going to talk about
balsamic vinegar we all use it but we don't know what it is how it's made and where it comes from
so if you want to gain some information about balsamic vinegar keep watching this video
balsamic vinegar is the most expensive vinegar in the world that is also known as the king of
all vinegars it was first made about 1 200 years ago in a city in italy called modina and because
of its dark color in italy they call it the black gold balsamic vinegar is made from turbiano and
lombrusco grapes all the balsamic vinegar that we find in this tour are not original and there
are only two types of balsamic vinegar which are original traditional of medina and balsamic
vinegar of medina and these two have a commitment to the process of making balsamic vinegar like the
recipe that they use for making balsamic is what has been used since 1200 years ago so let's see
how they make it in traditional of medina they would pick all the grapes and as i mentioned
terbiano and lomborusco grapes and then they would cold press it to get the juice out and then they
would boil the juice for a long period of time until the volume of the grape juice is about
a third and then they would pour the grape syrup down that they have into different kinds of wooden
barrels and these burials are hazardous oats berry and cherry and each of these wooden barrels has a
specific role in making balsamic vinegar one of them transfers aroma the other transfers a
sweet taste to the balsamic vinegar and the other transfers a darker color after pouring the grape
juice into the barrels aging process begins this process takes the longest time in balsamic making
and traditional of modino has to be aged for at least 12 years there are three different kinds of
traditional of medina though one of them has to be aged for at least 12 years the other who has
to be aged for at least 18 years and the other one has to be aged for at least 25 years as you
may know as the balsamic gets older it will be more expensive for example 30 milliliter of 25
year old balsamic vinegar is 53 dollars that's roughly like two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
dollars and one liter of an 18 year old balsamic vinegar is 1200 all right the second one balsamic
vinegar of modino and that's what i have over here so the process of making balsamic vinegar
of medina is actually just like traditional of modino but it takes less time to make what they do
is after that they transfer the grape juice into the wooden barrels they also add wine vinegar to
it this makes the fermentation process to start much earlier and faster and this type of vinegar
has to be aged for at least two months and the price of it is much much cheaper than traditional
of medina each liter of balsamic vinegar of modina is 23. balsamic vinegar has a strong taste and if
yours doesn't that means something is wrong with your vinegar and when you taste it you suddenly
feel it and all over your mouth and it's not just the tip of your tongue or the back of your tongue
it's all over your mouth and until this day there are only 100 factories in the world that make
original balsamic vinegar it's good to know that these 100 factories are located in italy in the
cities of medina and emilia if you want to make sure that your balsamic vinegar was made in italy
this yellow and blue sign indicates that your balsamic vinegar was made in italy was made in
its origin we can use balsamic vinegar in a lot of things we can just add a couple of drops of it
on anything that we eat and it it would change the flavor but it's it's not bad it's really good we
can make different types of salad dressings with it it can be used as a marinade for any type of
protein and in italy they usually add a couple of drops of balsamic vinegar to their ice cream
so when you had ice cream and you had balsamic vinegar in house you know what to do
all right now i would show you the thickness and the color of balsamic vinegar of medina
you see it's not too thick and it's not too thin and it's the color of it is really dark you see
it kind of coats the edge of the glass
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