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“A white wine vinegar is nice for, say, chicken breasts, where another vinegar may lend an off-putting color to the dish. It becomes more of a visual thing,” he says. He also recommends it for ...

Food & Wine / Getty Images. Best for refrigerator pickles: white balsamic, white wine, or rice vinegar “What’s so great about refrigerator pickles is that you can really allow the vegetable ...

From crisp distilled white vinegar to sweet-sour balsamic, here are 10 essential vinegar vinegars to know: how they’re made, what they taste like, and when to reach for each.

Rather than wine, balsamic vinegar starts with just grapes, the juice of which is “boiled down to a sweet, fruity syrup, then aged in various wooden barrels,” Ferguson wrote.