Vinegar & Oil Connoisseur Set 200ml

Vinegar and Oil Gourmet Set by Lang Weinessig

The Vinegar and Oil Gourmet Set by Lang Weinessig is a collection of four 50-milliliter bottles: Balsamico Südpfalz, Vinaigrette Liese with Riesling, organic walnut oil, and organic mountain pepper oil. Two vinegars and two oils that can be combined with one another.

The Vinegar and Oil Gourmet Set brings together four small bottles from the Southern Palatinate by Lang Weinessig, totaling 200 milliliters. The balsamic provides dark sweetness, the Vinaigrette Liese adds a bright Riesling profile, the walnut oil offers nuttiness, and the mountain pepper oil delivers the spice you would otherwise get from a pepper mill.

Four bottles, four characters

The balsamic is dark and velvety because its grape must was reduced over a long period. The Vinaigrette Liese is based on white wine vinegar aged in oak barrels and brings a bright freshness that is perfect for green salads and fish. Added to this are the walnut oil, as nutty as if someone had just cracked a nut, and the warming mountain pepper oil. Both oils are cold-pressed, and both vinegars have spent time in wood or on the stove.

Each bottle works on its own; together, they create a small modular system for the salad bowl: first an oil, then a vinegar, then salt. Four of them result in more combinations than you need for a week of dinners, and no two taste the same. If you like, you can mix two oils together to get even more different results.

A gift set for the small kitchen

When you give this as a gift, you are giving four ready-made starters for good salads rather than one large bottle that might sit open for a long time. Whether for a birthday, as a thank-you, or as a treat from the kitchen, the set needs no further explanation because everyone immediately sees what to do with it. Small quantities also have the advantage that nothing goes stale before it is used up.

The small bottles also fit easily into luggage, motorhomes, and holiday kitchens where good oil is rarely found in the cupboard, leaving more room in your suitcase for everything else. If you would like to start with just two, choose the Balsamico & Walnut Oil Set, and the dark vinegar is also available in a larger size as Balsamico Südpfalz.

The mountain pepper oil is the outsider

Three of the four bottles come from the world of grapes; the fourth is different: in the mountain pepper oil, cold-pressed rapeseed oil carries the pepper, and its heat remains in the oil rather than dissipating. A few drops are enough over soup or baked potatoes. Pepper releases its heat better into fat than into water, which is why an oil makes perfect sense here.

The vinegars come from Lang Weinessig in the Southern Palatinate, and the two oils are cold-pressed by a local organic oil mill. This way, everything comes from a region where the sun shines more than elsewhere. Three of the four bottles are organic certified; the dark vinegar stands beside them.

First the oil, then the vinegar, then salt

Store the oils in a cool, dark place and use them promptly; the vinegars are more patient and last a long time even after being opened. For a quick dressing, take an oil of your choice and a splash of balsamic or Liese, plus salt and pepper. To start, it is enough to choose one oil and one vinegar and try the rest later. Everything else in the series can be found in the Lang Weinessig assortment.

Vinaigrette Liese, walnut oil, and mountain pepper oil – Organic control number DE-ÖKO-006 EU agriculture