The Margai sampler is the perfect set to cover all your cooking needs. Margai 2-year aged balsamic vinegar is a versatile and lighter balsamic condiment - a kitchen essential for salads and vegetables. Margai 5-year aged balsamic vinegar is more complex both its depth of flavor and its consistency, lending a perfect balance of sweetness and tartness and can be used in many ways: from heightening the flavor of salads and raw vegetables to finishing off a perfectly grilled steak or pork chop. Margai 12-year aged balsamic vinegar is sweet and thick, making it the ideal choice for accompanying cheeses, finishing refined dishes or topping a scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream.

100% Italian product. A well defined quality of grape from Reggio Emilia and Modena (Italy) is required and used in order to obtain this excellent balsamic vinegar.

Balsamic Vinegar comes from the most simple sugar and vinegar fermentation of cooked must but the
real secret lies in the aging process which is carried out in sets of different wooden barrels over a long period of time.

The refining of the bouquet which grows ever more intense, delicate and pleasant to smell and to taste, is the most complex and delicate phase and this is when the experience of the master vinegar maker is essential.

While the acetification process of ordinary vinegar is based on wine, the production of the precious
balsamic vinegar is based on cooked must. The classical tradition has it that the production is made in small wooden barrels arranged in sets of no less than three.
The three production phases are: alcoholic fermentation, acetic oxidisation and ageing.

The most common woods used for the barrels are oak, chestnut, mulberry, cherry, ash and juniper. Each one lends a particular aroma to the vinegar and makes it unique.

Balsamic Vinegar can be used neat to dress salads and crudities, on flakes of aged cheese, to liven up mayonnaise, creams, pastes. It marries perfectly with all red meats, with game or with white meats and there is just one handy hint: it should be added to cooked food only at the end of cooking, so as not to lose its aroma and volatile bouquet.