2025 Batteries topping up
As every year, with the arrival of the feast of our city’s patron saint, San Geminiano of Modena, we dedicated ourselves to topping up the barrels in our vinegar cellar. The topping-up process is not only necessary to keep the progression of the vinegar batteries going, replacing the vinegar that has evaporated over the previous year, but it is also a perfect opportunity to spend some time among the barrels, to come into direct contact with the product and the equipment, to make small repairs, note any damages, improvements, etc.
During each topping-up session, we move several hundred liters of vinegar, both by removing the overly dense vinegar and by transferring the vinegar between barrels according to the results of our analyses. As you can see, it’s a hands-on job!
The analyses, as mentioned, are an essential tool for carrying out the topping-up process correctly. The example graph shows the acidity levels for one of our vinegar batteries. The darker solid line represents the most recent year, while the other lines indicate the values from previous years. As you can see, year after year, through the topping-up process, we adjust and smooth out the more extreme values of the battery, gradually. This allows us to maintain stable aging over the years and achieve a final product with a balanced flavour.
