Vinagre de Jerez: The Vinegar That Waits Ten Years to Be Bottled

Most vinegar is made. Vinagre de Jerez is waited on. It sits in the same American oak barrels used for Sherry wine, in the same cellars, going nowhere for years at a time, while somebody who isn’t in a hurry decides when it’s ready. Nobody rushes a barrel into bottling because a shipment is due. [...] read more

From One Pressing, Two Very Different Oils

An olive doesn’t hurry, and neither does the oil that comes from it. Somewhere between the grove and the bottle, a decision gets made — pick this variety, press it this way, bottle it before it has time to change its mind — and that decision is the whole story. Rush any part of it [...] read more