Oils, vinegars & honeys
Ten precious liquids of the modern pantry: single-varietal olive oils from Provence, Crete and Tuscany, 12-year Modena balsamic vinegar, Banyuls vinegar, mono-floral chestnut, fir and manuka honeys, traditional tamari. For each bottle: its terroir, its production method, when to use it and our recommended merchants.
Oils (5)
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Oil · Cold-pressed oil
Cold-Pressed Rapeseed Oil
Yorkshire Wolds and the Cotswolds, single-estate farms, England
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Oil · Olive oil
Cretan Extra Virgin Olive Oil PDO
Sitia, Lassithi, eastern Crete, Greece (PDO)
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Oil · Olive oil
Provence PDO Olive Oil
Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse, Var, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), France (PDO)
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Oil · Sesame oil
Toasted Sesame Oil
Japan (Kadoya, Yamada in Osaka and Kyushu) and South Korea (Korea-grown sesame, with much seed imported from India, Sudan, and Nigeria), Japan / South Korea (none)
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Oil · Olive oil
Tuscan Extra Virgin Olive Oil IGP
Tuscany (Chianti, Lucca, Siena, Florence), Italy (IGP)
Vinegars (5)
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Vinegar · Fruit vinegar
Balsamic Vinegar of Modena 12-Year
Modena and Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (IGP / DOP)
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Vinegar · Fruit molasses
Pomegranate Molasses
the Levant — Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon
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Vinegar · Raw cider vinegar
Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
Vermont (US) · Herefordshire (UK), traditional cider-apple country, United States / United Kingdom
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Vinegar · Cooked-must condiment
Saba (Grape Must Syrup)
Modena and Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Vinegar · Sherry vinegar
Sherry Vinegar (Jerez) PDO
Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia (the Sherry Triangle: Jerez, El Puerto de Santa María, Sanlúcar de Barrameda), Spain (PDO)
Honeys (7)
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Honey · Monofloral honey
Acacia Honey
Great Hungarian Plain and the wider Carpathian Basin (also Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia), Hungary
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Honey · Monofloral honey
Buckwheat Honey
Upstate New York & Minnesota (also the Dakotas), United States
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Honey · Monofloral honey
Chestnut Honey
Italian chestnut belt (Tuscany, Piedmont) and southern France (Cévennes, Corsica), Italy / France (PDO (Mele di Corsica — Miel de Corse, for the Corsican lots))
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Honey · Medicinal honey
Manuka Honey (UMF)
North and South Island, coastal and forest scrubland, New Zealand (UMF)
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Honey · Plant syrup
Sorghum Syrup
Appalachian South (Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina), United States
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Honey · Monofloral honey
Sourwood Honey
Southern Appalachians (North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee), United States
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Honey · Varietal honey
Tupelo Honey
Apalachicola River basin, Florida (Wewahitchka, Gulf County), United States