How do you make your own sherry vinegar?

Sherry vinegar is made mainly in Spain using the solera system Imagine a pyramid of wooden barrels with each one containing vinegar the bottom row of barrels or the solera level holds the oldest vinegar the top row holds the youngest when the solera vinegar is ready for bottling only a third of the vinegar from each barrel is drained and bottled and then the void is filled with younger vinegar from the next row up which is then replenished from the third row up and so on in this fashion the younger vinegar picks up the characteristics of the older vinegar which is deep rich nutty slightly sweet and very sharp and so would be virtually impossible to make properly yourself at home

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