Cantina Paltrinieri is absolutely on of the Lambrusco champions, a winery that has succeeded in making the best of the uniqueness of the Sorbara vineyard, an Emilia enology pride. Lambrusco Radice - Cantina Paltrinieri is a bottle that conveys precisely and directly the uniqueness of the winery, a Lambrusco di Sorbara Doc re-fermented in the bottle, natural and sincere, with a very intense rosé colour (which has been made visible due to the restyling of the Radice Paltrinieri bottle from dark to transparent). The taste is fresh, well acid and pleasantly fruity but without excess also due to the dry connotation that soften the sweetness of the fruity tastes. Ideal as an aperitif, with fired fish, crudité, cold cuts and gnocco fritto.

The certified Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna has come back available right now, but if you want to taste it fresh, just fished off the Western Sicilian coast, it’s better for you to hurry! Indeed, the Bluefin Tuna fishing shares ICCAT certified (the only legal one) will be open only for a limited period, in order to guarantee a respectful fishing safeguarding the specie. Among the different varieties the Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna is the finest and tastiest: filet, tarantello and Fresh bluefin tuna ventresca are the best cuts, are the most recommended, from which it is possible to obtain excellent raw production as tartare, carpaccio, sashimi or quickly seared on a grill. We also guarantee the total lack of any additive or colorants altering the color of our Mediterranean fresh Bluefin Tuna.

Campisi Conserve is born in the province of Siracuse, precisely in Marzamemi, a territory where the bond between people and the sea has a total and millenary dimension. The company, funded in 1854, is just the natural continuation of an activity that was already part of the familiar everyday life, using the same raw materials and high quality fished fish through the generations. Among the products that stands out for their quality and bond with the territory there is Red Tuna Fillet in olive oil Antiche tonnare di Marzamemi, with a package reflecting perfectly the tradition linked to the original territory, which still nowadays continues to give the same genuineness ad tastes.

A great salmon tartare is always a pleasure for your palate, as we are a website concerned exclusively with Italian typical products you could correctly wonder what salmon has to deal with Italian food. This time the Italian specialities have the aim to side this great fish from the cold northern sea, to elevate it and create a great contamination. The base of the dish is a fava beans cream, adding the bitter taste to the sweetness of salmon, while the fresh Ricotta - Puglia Sapori e Dintorni seasoned with non treated lemon zest add the creamy texture and freshness with the evergreen fish-lemon taste combination, while the Avola toasted almond give perfect a final crunchy texture to the recipe.

Anchovies are one of the favourite allies by the chefs, and non professional cooks too, in their creations. Their versatility, sapidity and strong flavour add every recipe a strictly personal touch so difficult to find in other ingredients, and, if they’re high quality ones, if you taste them purely as an appetizers they sound like a true call from the sea. Extra anchovy fillets in oil Extra virgin olive oil - Mare Puro come directly from the Sicilian Mediterranean Sea, they’re fished and then processed within 24-48 hours after the fishing, in order to preserve both their taste and organoleptic properties at their best. The preservation of the Mediterranean Sea anchovies in high quality extra virgin olive oil is fundamental element to obtain a final product which is an intense explosion of sea flavors.

The Valdobbiadene is the mother land of the Prosecco par excellence, a hill area dedicated to the viticulture for more than a thousand years as some ancient scripts dating to the middle age testify. It is in the heart of the DOCG Conegliano Valdobbiadene area that in 1968 nine small wine cellars united their resources to create the highest quality possible wines, it’s here that the Prosecco Valdobbiadene DOCG - La Marca is born. A wine that has been rewarded with many prizes as the 90/100 score by Wine Spectator, and represents the most sincere expression of the Prosecco DOCG and its territory. The color is straw yellow with some golden shades, aromas are mainly floral and a little fruity, at the palate it prove to be very balanced, soft, with some interesting citrus notes and a pleasant mineral finale. Certainly the ideal as an aperitif, great paired with fish or appetizers too.

When you don’t live near the sea, it’s not always easy to find the products reminding its original aromas and flavors. Mare Puro (La Bottarga di Tonno Group) is placed in Custonaci, on the western side of Sicily, a stone’s throw away from the Mount Cofano marine reserve and the Bonagia tonnara, realities far away from the industrial fishing that influenced the company in turn. The products are obtained working the fresh fish, just fished following sustainable criteria in the Sicilian open sea (and in the case of the red tuna following the acquisition of official quotations), through craft techniques and the use of high quality ingredients, ad the Trapani sea salt, local excellence that contributes to elevate the quality of the fish which is great itself. Tuna bottarga, anchovy fillets, Bluefin tuna belly fillets - Ventresca di Tonno Rosso - Mare Puro are only some of the products to try, able to reproduce the sea authenticity .

The strictly personal peculiarities have curbed the possibilities and pairings of the Lambrusco. It is often considered a wine to pair only with Emilia specialities as tigelle or gnocco fritto with cold cuts, the Lambrusco di Sorbara is a vine variety that can be developed in many different ways with many different shades according to the methods used in the vineyard and in the wine cellar. Cantina Paltrinieri was one of the first entity to sustain the versatility of this Italian wine, introducing different processes for the same vine variety obtaining excellent results. As it is for the GROSSO Lambrusco di sorbara metodo cl.2013 - Cantina Paltrinieri, where the choice of a metodo classico, with 24 months of initial refinement and 6 months of refinement in the bottle, has been able to reconsider a wine diversifying it from its stereotype. Indeed the result is particular starting from the color, in this case a copper ancient rosè, the perfumes are floral, fruity but accompanied by a light citrus note, which anticipate a freshness that we find again at the palate, where a good acidity make the wine pleasantly fresh paired with sapidity, sensations that combine at their best with the typical red fruit aromas. Great as aperitif, paired with fish, fried food and naturally Emilia specialities.

Today is wine tasting day, and we’re trying a Garda Lake wine: the VIGNETO CAMILLA LUGANA DOC 2016 - MALAVASI. A Lugana Produced by the wine cellar Malavasi, in Sirmione, it is 100% made up of trebbiano grapes, which give it an intense straw yellow color with some green shades. The nose brings mainly melon and citrus notes, with a little floral perception, while at the palate freshness and sapidity paired with a fruity aroma and great persistency. Food pairing: first courses, fish and white meats.

Someone could define it a risk, from our point of view we can say that this is a dish conceived following a balance created by the contrasts between the ingredients flavors: The Amatriciana monkfish. Using the right products creativity is exalted: daily fresh fish accompanied by the multiple times rewarded San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus, the Guanciale (jowl bacon) - La Cinta di Guido made by our friend and small artisanal producer La Cinta di Guido, Pecorino romano DOP and finally a toasted slice of organic spelt bread. The result is an explosion of tastes, possible thanks to a reinterpretation of a classic recipe of the Italian cuisine and the use of the best Italian products.

Sometimes we forgot how much spices or aromatic herbs can change the perfume and taste of a recipe, giving them an extra touch that make them perfectly balanced. So the choice of these ingredients must be careful and informed, as for the Sicilian oregano in the bunch - Az. Agr. Balducco Fulgatore ours come from the Sicilian fields, where it is dried naturally under the sunlight that envelops the island all year long. The oregano is picked up by hand and than separated into bunches, in oder not only to make it keep totally its intense aromaticity caused by the microclimate and the marine air , but at the same time so that it can be a perfect decoration for your kitchen. Ideal after the cooking in the mediterranean recipes both on meat and fish and on pizza. Sicilian Oregano

Sicily is historically a territory particularly suitable for the wine production, thanks to the great climatic and geological conditions. Moreover the marked biodiversity has favored the development of many different local vine varieties, among which the Zibibbo is one of the most well known. We've found in LIGHEA BIANCO DONNAFUGATA 2014 a very good Sicilian wine, lively golden yellow coloured, on the olfactory side the Mediterranean notes as almond, floral and apricot are well exalted, while at the palate a balanced saltiness stands out with a delicate citrus note, leaving a final really good taste in your mouth. Ideal pairing with all the fish based dishes, from the cruditè, to first courses and fry fish.

Summer may be coming to the end, but your desire to eat good fish not and La Bottarga di Tonno Group is a masterpiece as it concern both fresh fish and conserved fish. This company is located on the western coast of Sicily, in Custonaci, so they're able to select the freshest and high quality Mediterranean fish from the adjacent sea directly every day. This direct and short chain guarantee our customers the possibility to have te real taste of the sea at their home all year long, having the great beneficial properties on health intact too. You will find fresh ones as Fresh bluefin red tuna fillet, or in oil products like the Sicilian anchovy filets - La Bottarga di Tonno Group or the manufactured ones as Tuna bresaola - La Bottarga di Tonno Group and Bluefin tuna bottarga, 1st choice 800/3000 - La Bottarga di Tonno Group.

CONTESSA VIOLANTE - CONTE DE QUIRRA is a Vermentino di Sardegna DOC that certainly encloses the characteristics of the typical denomination, but it is endowed with personal peculiarities that gives it a strong personal connotation too. The motivations at the base are the proximity to the sea, but above all the tardive grape harvest, that, contrary to the classic Vermentino is near the drying. As a consequence the refinement will be longer to, from the average 3 months to 8-10 months. The result is a strong yellow pale with green shades wine, with great acidity and freshness despite the tardive harvest, that encloses not only the typical aromas of a Vermentino Sardo that is to say floral, citrusy and exotic, but also more complex shades as the licorice final and the balanced alcoholic presence (14% vol). Food pairing: crustaceans, grilled fish, cheeses.

In the hot summer nights the white wines, thanks to their characteristics, help to refresh the palate and make the dinner more tasty. LE TENUTE Riesling Garda D.O.P. - Tenute del Garda is a wine mostly made up of riesling grapes, a semi-aromatic vine variety, a peculiarities that makes it particularly perfumed and consequently adapt to the current season. At the sight it turns out to be pale yellow with some golden shades, the typical aromaticity suggests floral and exotic fruit notes. At the palate the aromas perceived at the sense of smell are found again, an alcoholic but not invasive note (13% vol) and a lightly sapid final. Ideal pairing: appetizers, first courses, fish main courses.

Agricultural Company Cobue: Not only Lugana among the wonderful vineyards on like of Garda. Yesterday we were lucky to visit the Agricultural Company Cobue, located in the southern area of Lake of Garda. The vineyards extend for 17 hectares, surrounding the wine cellar with a mangnificent panorama of the Lake. The wine cellar is modern and innovative, specifically dug under the ground level to maintain constant temperature and humidity in the most natural way all year long. What makes the company different is the choice to not produce only Lugana (as it happens in the 90% of the cases in the area), but make wines with other local traditional grape varieties, each one in the way that fit the best to the vine variety. We had the occasion to taste Monte Olivi San Martino della Battaglia 2015 - Cobue, a white wine 100% made up of historic Tuchi (former Tocai) grapes. Straw yellow color with golden shades, the main aromas are white flowers with a particular chamomile note; a the palate the freshness exalts the aromas which are find again in the mouth with a balance light almond final. Ideal pairing with appetizers, pasta dishes, risotto and fish main courses.

Agricultural Company Cobue: Not only Lugana among the wonderful vineyards on like of Garda. Yesterday we were lucky to visit the Agricultural Company Cobue, located in the southern area of Lake of Garda. The vineyards extend for 17 hectares, surrounding the wine cellar with a mangnificent panorama of the Lake. The wine cellar is modern and innovative, specifically dug under the ground level to maintain constant temperature and humidity in the most natural way all year long. What makes the company different is the choice to not produce only Lugana (as it happens in the 90% of the cases in the area), but make wines with other local traditional grape varieties, each one in the way that fit the best to the vine variety. We had the occasion to taste S.Martino della Battaglia, a white wine 100% made up of historic Tuchi (former Tocai) grapes. Straw yellow color with golden shades, the main aromas are white flowers with a particular chamomile note; a the palate the freshness exalts the aromas which are find again in the mouth with a balance light almond final. Ideal pairing with appetizers, pasta dishes, risotto and fish main courses.

From today the fresh red tuna directly from the Sicilian sea is available again, that is to say the best tuna quality of the world. Have you ever asked yourself why is this product avialable only few months per year? The availability of red tuna for each country in terms of time and quantity and is regulated by the EU, indeed every nation has the right for a pre determined quantity of red tuna fished in a precise time laps. Red Tuna must be accompanied by an officiale certification realized by the port authority certifying its authenticity and regularity. OIP offers you the best quality Fresh bluefin tuna fillet and Fresh bluefin tuna ventresca, accompanied by the original certification. As the fresh tuna is put under vacuum sealed during the shipping it is possible that the color seems to be a little dull due to the interruption of the contact with oxygen, to make it regain its red lively colour it is enough to take it out from the vacuum seal and wait for a few minutes.

Appetizers are the ideal course to stimulate fantasy in the kitchen and try different taste within the same meal, going from cold cuts and meat from raw fish and vegetables. Today we're giving you a good idea for a tasty, fresh but also healthy appetizer: shrimps tartare with avocado sauce, zucchini and carasau bread. Ingredients: fresh shrimps, avocado, lime, Red onion Tropea / Montoro Onions (second season) or Red garlic from Nubia, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Fine sea salt, black pepper, zucchini, Carasau bread. Clean the shrimps taking out the intestines, then cut them into very small pieces. Put some pieces of the minced shrimps together between 2 sheets of oven paper and flatten with a meat mallet, so put the tartare in the freezer until they will be served. For the avocado sauce is better use an avocado as mature as possibile (it will be softer), so peel the avocado e put its pulp in the mixer together with some lime juice, minced onion or garlic (less), Evo oil, salt and black pepper. Cut the zucchini (or any seasonal vegetable you like) into small cubes and stir fry them in a pan with some evo oil seasoning them with black pepper. Finally take the tartare out of the freezer and put it on a flat plate, place the zucchini and carasau bread on, while the avocado sauce beside to garnish.

Anchovies anciently were one of the most popular fish as when they're put under salt they can not only last for a very long time, but they also become better with the passing of time. Nowadays Agostino Recca carries on the old traditions and methods trough his company in Sicily (Sciacca). Every process is hand made as Agostino believes that "machines can't distinguish between a good anchovy and a bad one, but these women can", as he said in a interview on a BBC special. So today we're going to give you a recipe whose protagonist are Fillets of Anchovies - Agostino Recca: Spaghetti with butter and anchovies. Ingredienti: Linguine di Gragnano - Pastificio Dei Campi (we're going to use linguine instead of spaghetti today), Fillets of Anchovies - Agostino Recca, Butter - Az. Agricola Frascio, Red garlic from Nubia, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Raw Sea Salt Picked by Shoulder - Cuordisale - Salinagrande and a red hot chili pepper, bread. First put the pasta in boiling salted water for half the time it is written on the box. Meanwhile cut the anchovies into small pieces (3 anchovies per person) and put some olive oil, the minced anchovies, a garlic clove and a little minced red hot chili pepper in a pan and make them stir fry. When the linguine will be at half cooking dry them conserving the boiling water, so you have make the pasta cook in the pan used before adding the boiling water gradually (not too much , it has not even to cover the past) until the pasta will be cooked at the right level (al dente of course). Take the pan off the fire, at this point the pasta will be creamy and savory, but to make it more creamy add some butter and amalgamate as it is a risotto, the result will be outstanding. As a final touch toast some minced bread (not too thinly) and garnish with it to add crunchiness and a toasted flavor.

Principato di Lucedio can praise an almost thousand-year old history. It was funded in 1123 by the Cistercensi monks who were the first in Italy to introduce the cultivation of rice. The production process is full low environmental impact method and the packaging under protect atmosphere guarantee the freshness and quality of product. As the carnaroli rice is the fittest for risotto, we're giving you a recipe of a quite summer taste risotto: Risotto with shrimps, zucchini and burrata. Ingredients: Carnaroli Rice Principato di Lucedio, shrimps, Burrata pugliese - Caseificio Voglia di Latte, zucchini, onion, cherry tomatoes, white wine, Butter - Az. Agricola Frascio, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo. First shell the shrimps, clean them putting out the intestines, and use the remaining heads to make a fish broth (bisque). Make the shrimp heads stop fry with some chopped onion and some cut cherry tomatoes, after 1\2 minutes add cold water. Cut the zucchini in small cubes and make them stir fry with some evo oil. In a pan, after browing some some chopped onion with, make the rice toast, when the rice will be toasted simmer with white wine utile reduced and then add the bisque. Add 1 \2 spoonful each time not covering the rice at all and add it until the risotto will be ready. In the end add a knot of butter, the shrimps and cook until creamy. Put the risotto with shrimps in a plate, then add the zucchini and some burrata.

Strong Beer Ale Orientale Sarda - CONTE DE QUIRRA is an Italian artisanal red beer whose barley is cultivated in Sardinia and then it is made in Tuscany. It is a full-bodied beer of a dark amber color. On the palate, notes of special malt, reminiscent of dried fruits. Furthermore, notes of chestnut, hazelnut and light toasted notes of bread crust. It is the ideal combined with white meats or grilled fish. Characteristics: Malts: Maris Otter, Pilsner, Crystal, Special B; Hops: Challenger, Bramling Cross; Color: red beer; Alcohol content: 6.5%; Bitterness: 40 IBU

This is the second step of the artisanal beer vertical by the agriculture company conte de Quirra: Birra Golden Ale Costa Rei - CONTE DE QUIRRA As the other beer the barley is cultivated in Sardinia and then beer is made in Tuscany. The result is a simple but powerful refreshing blond beer: In the glass, notes of meadow flowers combine. Soft on the palate with little carbonic acid with a balanced finish (5% Alcohol content) The ideal foodpairing is with Tuscan cold cuts as finocchiona and guanciale, or it could be a great combined with a mix fish or vegetables fry.

Today we're introducing you Conte de Quirra, a Sardinia company which produces 5 great different types of artisanal beer that we will describe you during the next days. All of those Italian Artisanal beers are made from barley cultivated in Sardina and then the beer is realized in Tuscany. The first beer we're describing is Blonde Beer Ale Tavolara - CONTE DE QUIRRA: this is a lightly spiced beer which reminds of the German weiss or the Belgian blanche, but it is anyway endowed with a great alcoholic graduation (5,8%). It is a fresh and refreshing beer which pairs perfectly with a pizza or fish cruditès.

Today we're going to introduce Italian pata negra: the Raw ham from the Calabrian Black Pork. Its similarities with the Iberian cousin are several, starting from the race of the pigs, in fact both of them have black coat, that is to say an hybrid between a wild boar and a pig. What differentiates the Calabrian black pork from the others is the slow growth of the animal, this leads to a better maturation of the meat but also to better nutritional values of raw ham containing omega 3 and omega 6 acid fats. These can normally be found only in fishes and seaweeds, their action combined in the right measure is beneficial for our health among which helping the prevention of cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension. Those its have an exceptional capacity to adapt themselves even to the most ostile ground, this is the reason why they still eat (mainly acorns, chestnuts and cereals) and live in the wild for the most of time. The consortium Nero di Calabria has put together many small selected local farm animals with the aim to give the right value and visibility to a product that has lacked in promotion and making of a brand in the past, but is as good as (or also better) other more well known high quality meats. One most exceptional product is the Raw Ham: it can be season up to 36 months having all the olfactory and taste characteristics which make it resembles Iberian jamon, with a sweet and creamy fat which melts in your mouth incredibly. Nero di Calabria products are completely artisanal, challenging the request of complete homogenization and homogeneity of tastes requires by the global markets.

Not all the people know that Sicilian red tuna fishing is regulated by a EU disciplinary, in which only few fishermen for every nation,and only during certain short periods of the year, are allowed fish pre-determined quantities of red tuna which are controlled and certified. In fact if you will buy our Sicilian fresh red tuna we will attach the ICCAT certificate too. As in these days the fishing period of red tuna has just started we are suggesting you a very simple but delicious tuna recipe which needs and will exalt the real taste of red tuna and its extreme freshness : the tuna tartare Ingredients: an extremely fresh red tuna slice, extra virgin olive oil (a delicate one is recommended in order not to cover the tuna taste), Thin Raw Sea Salt Picked by shoulder, white pepper, fresh mint and a few Sicilian lemon skin. Cut the red tuna into small cubes, marinate the tuna with EVO oil, a few lemon skin and white pepper. Then adjust with a pinch of raw sea salt and minced fresh mint an serve it with a new pouring of oil.

La Valle “Rosé” - Franciacorta Brut D.O.C.G. 2012 vintage in April 2016 has been rated 89\100 by the famous Italian sommelier Luca Gardini (Gardini Notes, the wine killers). This wine is the born from the meeting between the elegance of the Chardonnay grapes and the power of the Black Pinot grapes and the result is an incredibly lively wine that is perfect not only for aperitifs but also with fish based meals and particularly with crustaceans.

Our latest news on pur catalogue of the Orto Mio pot plants. The best quality pot plants on the market to allow everybody cultivate their own fish, healthy and genuine vegetables and aromatic herbs. These pot plants are easy to cultivate and they don't need much space, you can easily cultivate them in you garden or balcony, let's try them!

The Colatura di Alici di Cetara (Traditional Anchovy Sauce) by Delfino is a slow food product following strict rules: The anchovies must be fished in the Gulf of Salerno, then they must be hand-cleaned, make drying under salt for 4-5 months in wooden containers and finally bottled in glass bottles and numbered by hand.

How to add a touch of originality to your fish based dinner? Let's try our Tuna bottarga, it comes directly from Tuna fished in the Sicilian open sea. This product can be served on a pasta dish or with some lemon and olive oil on a piece of bread.