The process is painstaking, slow and laborious, but worth every step. No shortcuts are taken, no inferior fruit picked, no spoiled wine made into vinegar, Minus 8 is never boiled and never hurried. The superior quality that sets Minus 8 apart is guaranteed.

All Minus 8 is hand-crafted by one winemaker at one vineyard, from ultra premium quality fruit grown to the strictest standards. First, each vine must be protected from hungry animals with netting, until harvest when the nets are removed. The harvest conditions for Minus 8 Wine Vinegar are often brutally cold temperatures below -8°C (17°F), winter winds and night skies make a bone chilling combination for the people who hand pick and press the grapes. Why risk frostbite for frozen grapes? The answer is in the taste. Months of weathering give the grapes unmistakable flavors found nowhere else; the slow natural freezing concentrates those flavors. The winemaker blends juices from 8 varieties of grapes elevated and harvested in this way to attain the intricate flavor profile and delicate balance.

First, wine is made from the juice; a delicious luxury in itself. But then this wine is fermented, slowly, over months, alcohol transforming to acetic acid, or vinegar. Temperatures are monitored; overheating is avoided to make sure that every characteristic aroma and taste of the original wines is maintained. The unique fermentation culture used to produce Minus 8 was developed with the first making of Minus 8 many years ago, and it is cared for year after year for consistency.

This vinegar isn't Minus 8 until it has been aged for years partially in French oak barrels, then blended with vinegars dating back to 1997, and finally bottled. Minus 8 is very limited in production.

Customer Review: Minus 8 Ice Wine Vinegar

Minus 8 Ice Wine Vinegar - 200 ml
Best gourmet vinegar around

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