{"title":"The Balsamic Vinegars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn 1984, Alois Gölles created the world's first apple balsamic vinegar. We still work the same way today: reducing fruit juice, fermenting it, then aging it for years in oak barrels. The result is dark and dense, with its sweetness derived from the fruit itself. Five varieties, ranging from one year in a steel tank to over twenty years in wood.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"apfel-balsamessig","title":"Apple Balsamic Vinegar","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen years of aging. At least.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCider made from old cider apple varieties—Maschansker, Rosenapfel, Bohnapfel—is boiled down and fermented before being placed in the oak barrels where it spends the next ten years. In 1984, Alois Gölles invented this vinegar, the first of its kind worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime works within the barrel. Through the open pores of the wood, the vinegar breathes, oxidizes, and evaporates. Because the acid structure and aroma harmonize more finely over the years, the result is a vinegar that is dark, dense and melting on the palate, and balanced in its sweetness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo concentrate. No coloring. The sweetness comes from the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom time, taste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIngredients: Apples.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gölles","offers":[{"title":"250 ml","offer_id":57407068209530,"sku":"002560","price":18.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"5 l Bag in Box","offer_id":57407068242298,"sku":"002580","price":239.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"125 ml Zerstäuber","offer_id":57407068275066,"sku":"002930","price":12.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/6103\/2826\/files\/goelles_essig_apfelbalsam_250_original.png?v=1791884987"},{"product_id":"xa-apfel-balsamessig","title":"XA Apple Balsamic Vinegar","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty years for one hundred milliliters.\u003cbr\u003eIt begins with the same must as our apple balsamic vinegar. Styrian cider apple varieties, reduced and fermented. Then, a different journey begins. The vinegar passes through the batteria, seven wooden barrels, each smaller than the last, made of oak, chestnut, acacia, and cherry. Each wood contributes something, and every year a portion of the water evaporates. Fruit becomes balsamic.\u003cbr\u003eWhat remains at the end is a small cask. Dense, sweet, complex, with 5% acidity that is no longer perceived as acid, but as structure. Two decades cannot be shortened, and you can taste that no one has tried. Time becomes taste.\u003cbr\u003eIt is used drop by drop, or enjoyed straight from the spoon. Both are correct. Each bottle is hand-numbered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gölles","offers":[{"title":"100 ml","offer_id":57407068340602,"sku":"002562","price":89.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/6103\/2826\/files\/Goelles_XA_Apfel_Balsamessig.png?v=1791884980"},{"product_id":"wein-balsamessig","title":"Wine Balsamic Vinegar","description":"\u003cp\u003eEight years in oak. Before that, the sun had already concentrated the sweetest grapes on the vine. We gently cook down their juice until fruit sugars and aromas are dense, and only then does it become vinegar. It stays at least eight years in one of our roughly 1,400 oak barrels, and while the wood adds structure and time rounds off the edges, a complex vinegar emerges with an acidity that resolves all contrasts. Nature becomes culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gölles","offers":[{"title":"250 ml","offer_id":57407068373370,"sku":"002610","price":19.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"5 l Bag in Box","offer_id":57407068406138,"sku":"002630","price":279.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"125 ml Zerstäuber","offer_id":57407068438906,"sku":"002880","price":12.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/6103\/2826\/files\/goelles_essig_weinbalsam_250_8jahre.png?v=1791884989"},{"product_id":"weisser-balsamessig","title":"White Balsamic Vinegar","description":"\u003cp\u003eLight in color, sweet and sour in taste. The vinegar that runs out fastest in our house. We ferment white wine into vinegar and refine it with concentrated grape juice, then it ages for a year in stainless steel tanks. No wood, because oak would give it color and tannin, and thus take away exactly what it stands for in the kitchen: brightness and clear fruit. So versatile that the question of what it pairs with becomes almost superfluous. Variety out of boredom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gölles","offers":[{"title":"500 ml","offer_id":57407069225338,"sku":"002660","price":14.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"250 ml","offer_id":57407069258106,"sku":"002661","price":10.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"5 l Bag in Box","offer_id":57407069290874,"sku":"002670","price":105.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"125 ml Zerstäuber","offer_id":57407069323642,"sku":"002881","price":10.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/6103\/2826\/files\/goelles_essig_weisserbalsam_500_liebling.png?v=1791884987"},{"product_id":"birnen-balsamessig","title":"Pear Balsamic Vinegar","description":"\u003cp\u003ePear can be balsamic. Opulent, harmoniously fruity, with a sweetness that never feels excessive. Old perry pear varieties are not table fruits. They bring tannins and tend to show their rough edges when raw, and that is precisely why they work here: pressed and fermented, they go into oak barrels, where this turns around over the years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt matures in oak barrels for at least four years. Around 1,400 of these are located in Riegersburg, in Austria's largest vinegar barrel cellar. During this time, the wood breathes, and the fruit settles. What remains is rounded pear fruit with a soft core. Mild, without becoming flat. 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