Condimento Balsamico Rosé – Botte 6

Casanova

Casanova 1748 is a family acetaia in Formigine, on the gentle Emilian hills just outside Modena, that has been cooking grape must and laying it down in wood for generations. The house takes its name and its romantic streak from Giacomo Casanova, the 18th-century adventurer who is said to have prized balsamic vinegar enough to hand it out as a gift. Today the family still presses selected local grapes, cooks the must slowly, and ages it through batteries of precious wood barrels before bottling each flask by hand. The Rosé is their playful counterpoint to the classic dark balsamic: instead of the usual cooked-down, mahogany-coloured must, it is built from red Ancellotta grapes and reduced under vacuum so the liquid never caramelises, keeping its luminous pink colour while it picks up vanilla and oak from six rounds of barrel ageing.