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Originally Posted by vash

i have a bottle of balsamic from Tuscany. we stopped in at some hidden vineyard. drinking and yucking it up with the owner's kid. he asked me if i wanted to taste their balsamic..YES! he took out a few small plastic spoons, and put a drop in each. one taste, my mouth felt like it was on "music"..like a stupid choir of angels were singing a perfect harmonic note on my tongue. i just blurted out.."i'll take it!"

my sister and brother, followed me over the cliff. the tiny bottle was $88 dollars. i kept that thing in my luggage like it was nuclear bomb material. i still have half of it left. my sibling blasted thru theirs. it is amazing drizzled over vanilla icecream.

good lordie.. a choir of angels..seriously.

I know this is an old thread, and this is a bit OT, but I saw an episode of Anthony Bourdain where they went to an area that made a lot of Balsamic. One family would put a cask away to start aging every time a boy was born. I think they had some stuff that was 150 years old. It didn't look like anything that you get in the US. I'd love to try some of the good stuff, but wouldn't know what to buy if I wasn't over there getting it.

That good, huh?