Harvesting my own homemade, naturally fermented red wine vinegar fills me me joy. (I haven’t had to buy red wine vinegar for more than a decade.)

This vinegar’s mother created itself from the wild yeast in the air and from the wine itself. I was lucky (but also patient), as it took almost a year for this miracle of nature to happen.

And the rewards are endless, gratifying and delicious. No commercially produced red wine vinegar could ever taste as good as a homemade red wine vinegar made using the exquisite natural wine from Donkey & Goat (full disclosure: I am a small investor in the winery).