Alvear Pedro Ximénez Dry Sherry Vinegar

Name: Alvear Pedro Ximénez Dry Sherry Vinegar
Brand: Manicaretti
SKU: MSALPDXVINDRY
Price: 19.95 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

$19.95

Traditionally crafted in Cordoba, Spain, this dry vinegar is made from award-winning Pedro Ximénez grapes that are harvested, sun dried, pressed and then fermented to remove the sugars using traditional methods. The flavors of the base wine are more concentrated, thanks to this method of drying and pressing ripened grapes. What you get is a juicer, more honeyed character. Even just on the nose, this really has the character of a lovely sherry. You can smell the nuances that the oak imparts— vanilla, subtle baking spices and soft woodiness. On the palate, the vanilla notes come hand-in-hand with an almost maple-like roundness, sort of a toasty toffee flavor. You really get a sense for that sherry nuttiness, and it gives a gentle savoriness to the overall flavor that is wildly delicious. It’s also much brighter than other more deeply aged sherries.

Ingredients

Ingredients: Wine vinegar
Specifications

Net Weight: 375 ml
Place of Origin: Spain
How to use

This vinegar begins with the sought-after Pedro Ximénez grape, which is known across Andalusia for it’s complex depth of flavor and use in single-varietal sherries.

Sherry wine is combined with a generations-old vinegar mother vinegar and then put through a traditional solera barrel-aging process for 10 years. The nuttiness that you taste in sherry comes from the exposure to air during the aging process. Natural yeasts form on the surface of the wine (called flor), which eat the sugars and impart a toasty, sometimes slightly savory nutty note.

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HOW TO USE

This vinegar is excellent when it comes to adding a rounded fruit flavor to any vinaigrette. We love pairing it with mustard, honey, maple, black pepper and nut oils like sesame. Toss with bitter greens like radicchio or frisée, aged cheeses, toasted nuts and apples or pears. It’s also a great substitute for wine when it comes to deglazing pans, giving dishes a pop of acidity and deeper, more complex flavor. You can also try it in our Onion Frittata with Sherry Vinegar Sauce or our Roasted Chicken Breasts with Grapes and Sherry Vinegar.