The origins of Balsamic Vinegar from Modena go back to the Middle Ages.

In the pages of his ‘Vita Mathildis’, an abbot called Donizone wrote about a barrel of Balsamic Vinegar that was presented as a gift to King Henry II in 1046 by Marquis Bonifacio di Canossa, the father of Matilda.

Many subsequent reports acknowledge the vinegar vaults of the House of Estense, which moved to Modena in 1289, to be the first real home of the production of Balsamic Vinegar.