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Traditional balsamic is made from cooked grape must aged in a series of shrinking barrels for at least twelve years — a family might start a set at a child's birth — and it bears no relation to the supermarket product. Ferrari is at Maranello and Lamborghini at Sant'Agata, both within twenty minutes, and Pavarotti was born here.

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