Good balsamic vinegar

[Chewbacca 7,787]

Anyone know a good place that ships for this?  My local shop I used to get it at closed during the pandemic.  I don't need $100 bottles of aged vinegar thick as molasses, just something good that I don't feel bad about drizzling over a salad.  I would prefer somewhere I can order it from online.

[DoobieWah 1,467]

Traders Joes. I think they have a couple of different ones but the one that comes in a short squat bottle is excellent for the $5 or $6. 

[Pescado_Rojo 19,431]

20 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

Anyone know a good place that ships for this?  My local shop I used to get it at closed during the pandemic.  I don't need $100 bottles of aged vinegar thick as molasses, just something good that I don't feel bad about drizzling over a salad.  I would prefer somewhere I can order it from online.

I buy the best stuff my local HEB sells, then take about a cup and simmer it until it reduces about 60-70%. Simple and makes an amazing drizzle (like molasses) on a Caprice salad or even ice cream. 

[gsoda3 3,283]

we like Con Olio in the arboretum. family run, great products, and they ship. 

 

https://www.conolios.com/

[horn4life 3,784]

Costco has two packs of this stuff for like $36, it's solid for sure.  Enough for about 100 Caprese Salads!

[luke duke 6,414]

we like Con Olio in the arboretum. family run, great products, and they ship. 
 
https://www.conolios.com/

Do they also sell TP for my bunghole?

[Deej 76,950]

1 hour ago, horn4life said:

Costco has two packs of this stuff for like $36, it's solid for sure.  Enough for about 100 Caprese Salads!

But what about on a Caprice salad?

[CycleTex87 2,981]

The best balsamic vinegar I’ve bought came from Sur La Table.  Tasty.  Williams Sonoma probably has some also. 

[Horn Draoi 256]

For general use, we use the 365 brand from Whole Foods

[C-Man 27,285]

On 9/30/2021 at 5:17 PM, Deej said:

But what about on a Caprice salad?

I don't know about that but I bet it's good for tossing Little Caprice's salet

[JCHIL 414]

I have been ordering from this place for a decade now - olive oil and vinegars - joined the club way back on a wine tasting trip to the Central Coast - their products are top notch: https://www.globalgardensonline.com/collections/vinegars

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

Slight thread hijack since this is a little older--

Our pantry contains balsamic vinegar, white wine vinegar, a red wine vinegar a friend made, apple cider vinegar, and regular  white vinegar. Recently I ran across a recipe that called for sherry vinegar and so I subbed in white wine vinegar but I started wondering--with the exception of balsamic which has a wide range in price, age, and quality, for the other types does it really  matter all that much? We use the balsamic quite a bit with various salads or bruschetta, the red wine on salads or with (cooked) wilted lettuce salad (yum) but the other ones I'm mostly using for things like refrigerator pickles or basic recipes.

Thoughts?

[956 Worldwide 34,794]

White vinegar is much stronger than most of the other types of vinegar and so that goes both ways. For pickling and stuff, you will need more wine or cider vinegar to get the same level of pickle-ness if you use something other than white. And on the flip side, using white when wine or cider is called for will add more harshness and you will want to cut it with water and maybe some sugar. I find for marinades and things, you can change the flavor profiles between cider, red, and white wine but plain white vinegar overpowers everything and breaks down meat fibers faster. 
 

It will take some experimenting to dial in.