Chardonnay Vinegar

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Allure’s Varietal Wine Vinegars
Our limited production wine vinegars are made in the traditional Orleans method from grapes grown on our two-acre estate vineyard. The vineyard was planted in 2000, a year before we planted our olive grove, and has now reached a level of maturity where grape quality continues to improve with every passing year. Currently, we grow the Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Zinfandel, Grenache, Chardonnay and Viognier varietals and make vinegar from all but the last one of them.

Making wine vinegar in the Orleans method is a two step process that takes a minimum of two years to complete. In the first stage, the grapes are hand-picked at the proper level of maturity and sugar to acid ratio, crushed and inoculated in our own estate facility. After fermentation is completed, the grapes are pressed and the young wine put in oak barrels for aging in our temperature-controlled wine room. After about a year (less for the Chardonnay) part of the wine is bottled for our own consumption and part placed in half-filled barrels in our barn and inoculated with mother of vinegar to start the acetification process. The barrels usually have at least one more hole drilled in them apart from the bung hole to assure better air circulation and are kept at much higher ambient temperature than is usual for wine.

After another year or so, the vinegar is drawn from the barrels, lightly filtered, pasteurized for 30 minutes at 155/160 degrees and bottled. It is aged in the bottle for another three to six months before released for sale. Our current selection includes Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Zinfandel. Grenache and Chardonnay vinegar will be available by March 2007 as well. Further products that we are presently experimenting with and may bring out in the coming year include raspberry vinegar, sherry vinegar and herb-infused varietal vinegars.

All our vinegars are bottled in a 250 ml amphora-shaped bottle made by Bruni of Italy.


Packed 12/8oz bottles
Shipped FOB Templeton, CA 93465

  • Shipping Weight: 14lbs
  • Manufactured by: Allure Estates
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