Wild Boar Salami

Variety of wild boar salami

One of the specialties of Florence and Chianti is the wild boar. You can have it served in a red wine stew, in sausage and in salami. While we were at the Castello Verrazzano, where the explorer Verrazzano lived, enjoying a wine tour several wild boars broke out of the brush and scampered across the vineyard. At the end of the tour we enjoyed a plate of wild boar salami, cheese and the best balsamic vinegar I have ever had. The balsamic was so good you could have drank it by the glassful (it was $75 for a small bottle). Compliment the food with a Chianti Classico Reserve and the wild boar salami and I was in heaven. I would be a very happy man if I could have that for lunch every day for the rest of my trip. Immediately after this meal we visited the town of Greve where we visited a famous butcher that specializes in wild boar products.

Wild Boar Salami at the Castello Verrazzano Winery

Wild boar shanks air cured like prosciutto

 

Wild boar in front of a famous butcher in Greve