This sweet and mellow vinegar, beautifully pale in color and feathery light in flavor, is painstakingly crafted from a white Pineau de Charentes, a traditional French aperitif that is made by adding young Cognac to the unfermented juice of Charentes grapes. Lovingly handmade, this delicate vinegar is aged in a small cellar, resting in oak barrels for four years while undergoing a slow acidification process to allow the vinegar to retain the sweet, rich flavors and wonderful nuances of pineau. Unpolluted by preservatives and unfiltered, this delectable vinegar enlivens your meals and tingles the tongue.

Try it on fois gras, in roasted poultry, in marinades for beef and rabbit, or drizzle it onto filet mignon. Perfect for onion confit, this is vinegar is mild enough to add to butter or mayonnaise to perk up a sandwich, and should be drizzled liberally on an avocado endive salad, fresh apricots, peaches, pears, and quinces. Also great for a simple mache salad.

Fairway Marketplace is brought to you by Fairway Market, a specialty food chain that started back in 1933 with a small fruit and vegetable stand on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Today, Fairway Market is legendary for its experts and expertise in all things food, and a relentless obsession with quality throughout all of the different departments in its stores. In December of 2011, Fairway launched this online shop, so that we could bring the best of the best of what Fairway offers, at the same great values, to those who don’t live near one of our stores. Why keep all of this foodie goodness to ourselves? That simply would not be fair.