Organic - Organic Farming - Products, Food, organic food - jam, honey

“Another step towards total eco-sustainability, RdA certified: “Only uses electric energy supplied from renewable sources”

Andrea Rigoni — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:35:03 +0000

Rigoni di Asiago has received this certificate, from YouTrade, to testify the renewable source of electricity supplied to Rigoni di Asiago for 2012. Another step towards our goal: total sustainability.

Fiordifrutta sponsors the Dutch Harp Festival at Utrecht

Andrea Rigoni — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:08:18 +0000

A message from Cristina Rigoni, International Sales Manager.
I was lucky enough to attend a really special event at Utrecht last weekend (1st April), the 2nd edition of the international harp festival and competition with 27 young harpists selected from all over the world.
The festival had a double voting procedure. Judges voted the best players and then the public voted for the overall winners. Well, it may surprise you, but Fiordifrutta participated with the “Fiordifrutta audience award”. This idea came to us because originality and harmony are two main characteristics of harp music which are the same sensations you get tasting Fiordifrutta.
Erik, our Sales Manager for Holland, and I spent Sunday attending harp concerts in different locations in the town centre, from the library at the Speelklok museum, to the Grand Hotel Karel V. A perfectly organized musical tour with a Fiordifrutta lunch including original sandwich combinations such as fig jam with Dutch cheese and our blueberry jam with paté. Guests appreciated the new flavours and the mono-portion sachets of Fiordifrutta and Nocciolata.
The day began with a beautiful concert by Anneleen Lenaerts, 24 years old and already leading harpist for the Viennese Philharmonic Orchestra. Several recitals followed with talented aspiring musicians all over the town centre. The judges elected Amandine Carbuccia, French-22 yrs; Ruth Bennet, English-American-22 yrs; Sarah Verrue, Belgian-24yrs to compete for the final event.
The competition took place at the Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn theatre with Radio 4 and Vpro TV. Utrecht’s young philharmonic orchestra accompanied the 3 harpists in a suggestive and emotional performance. The outright winner for both the professional and public awards was Amadine Carbuccia which also made her the winner of the Fiordifrutta Audience Award, (in my opinion well-deserved). The Lord Mayor of Utrecht, Aleid Wolfsen with Voice of Holland, winner Iris Kroes presented the awards.
Cristina R

RdA exhibits at BioFach, Nuremberg: hall 7, stand 45

Andrea Rigoni — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:00:35 +0000

Once again RdA will be at the world organic trade fair, BioFach, Nuremberg, Germany from 15-18th February. We’ll be with our German sales team in hall 7, stand 457.
Our new single portion sachets of Fiordifrutta jams and Nocciolata will be handed out to visitors as well as the full range of products to taste alone or with an ample selection of cheeses. It is no coincidence that this important event is held in Germany where organic food consumption is the greatest in Europe (coming second world-wide after the USA). Over 2,500 exhibitors are expected with 50,000 visitors from about 100 different nations. Apart from its consolidated preference to organic products, Germany is a strategic market because it has the strongest economy in Europe and the largest number of inhabitants after Russia.
We are at present well established in the specialist shop sector and are now ready to enter mass retailing which will obviously take longer and require good market planning, but with increased sales in Fiordifrutta, Nocciolata and Honey, we are definitely very hopeful.
German consumers are careful about eating quality food and they consider our products to be both top quality and innovative. We will support this strong, positive position with product tasting both in food sales locations and at special events.

Miss Texas and Nocciolata: love at first sight …

Andrea Rigoni — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:57:01 +0000

Miss Texas 2011, Ms. Kendall Morris (between the best 5 at Miss America) is another great fans of Nocciolata.

Incredible, Fiordifrutta blueberries give colour and aroma to exclusive fabric created by Giovanni Bonotto, Italy

Andrea Rigoni — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:44:07 +0000

Previewed recently at the Pitti Uomo fashion show in Florence (considered the most important international event for menswear and accessories), the Bonotto extraordinary range of lambswool cloth was hugely successful. The fabric was in fact dyed by using Rigoni di Asiago blueberries, the same top grade organic fruit normally destined to make Fiordifrutta Blueberry jam.
The idea came to light during a meeting with the exceptional Giovanni Bonotto, 4th generation of the Bonotto textile family in Molvena, Vicenza who, together with his brother, Lorenzo, runs one of the most important and appreciated companies worldwide which still adhere to the great Italian artisan tradition of weaving quality fabric for luxury designers – and ourselves, Rigoni di Asiago, experts in organic food.
Giovanni Bonotto presented his creativity and basic concept of a Slow Factory, a new manufacturing model able to revaluate the handcraft culture by Italian Artisan Masters who work on vintage machines from the ’50′s : less production, more works of art, a manifest against industrial standardizing and low cost production.
Our passionate and scrupulous research for the most natural, wild and often forgotten berries with the best organoleptic content for our Fiordifrutta jams (and not only…) meant we knew which fruit would make the perfect match for Giovanni’s daring project: to use wild fruit as a colourant for fine fabrics.
During processing, a part of these indigo blue berries are sieved and the resulting puree is mixed with whole berries. Nutrients are extracted from the remaining paste (peel and seeds) with a hydro-alcoholic solution which is then filtered several times to eliminate the alcohol and form the blueberry extract to be used by Bonotto as a colourant.
In order to create their unique fabric, Bonotto uses wool from the extremely rare Australian black sheep. Traditionally considered an accident of nature, probably because they produce very little wool per year, breeders would kill these sheep rather than let them cross-breed, so Giovanni had to convince a farmer in Australia to keep 100 animals for him to get the brownish wool (not black as one may assume) for his cloth. RdA supplied the blueberry extract to be boiled with the wool for 8 hours ensuring full absorption.
The result was a fine brown cloth with a slightly bluish hue, a totally unique colour and texture …. but the blueberries did more than colour the wool, they left their wonderful aroma. The entire artisan process will carry its own certificate to guarantee its uniqueness for the creation of no more than about 30 pieces – individually crafted scarves and shawls with their own delicate scent.
Who would ever have guessed that one day the fruit for our jams would become a precious fabric…

RdA the Fancy Food Show, San Francisco: photos

Andrea Rigoni — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:48:09 +0000

RdA at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, 15-17th January, stand 4835

Andrea Rigoni — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:01 +0000

Once again, RdA will be at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, 15-17th January (stand 4835), the 30th edition of the most important food and beverage show on the West Coast. Over 1,300 companies representing fine food from 35 different countries will be ready to welcome about 20,000 visitors.
For several years now, RdA has had its own sales office in Miami which covers the entire USA territory, with California being one of the strongest States thanks to local consumers who place a lot of importance on healthy food and wellness in general.
For us, this annual event offers a great occasion for our American sales team, headed by Alberto Carli, to get together with our distributers and clients as well as meeting Cristina Rigoni, Int. Sales Manager from Asiago head office. We also look forward to presenting our new creamy Italian Organic Raw Honey in large 10.6 oz jars (300 gr) and needless to say, offering our guests a taste of Fiordifrutta fruit spreads, Nocciolata and of course Honey.

A happy 2012 from Rigoni di Asiago

Andrea Rigoni — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:15:29 +0000

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Merry Christmas

Andrea Rigoni — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:31:59 +0000

Cream of Nocciolata, biscuits and Fiordifrutta Mandarin

Andrea Rigoni — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:34 +0000

Ingredients for 4 servings

80 g Fiordifrutta Mandarin
250 g digestive biscuits
250 g Nocciolata
350 ml milk
100 g sugar
2 eggs
10 g flour
4 fresh mandarins
4 mint leaves

Alessandro Dal Degan »

Cooking Method
Boil the milk. Mix the eggs, sugar and flour together until smooth. Gradually pour the milk in, stirring continuously. Heat to 85°C (without a thermometer, until the milk starts boiling around the edge of the pan). Melt the Nocciolata into the cream and leave to cool. Crumble the biscuits. Use tumblers (preferably tall and narrow) to make layers of biscuits, Nocciolata, Fiordifrutta Mandarin. Top with fresh mandarins and mint leaves.