Via Sbrisi n.2, 43010 Polesine Parmense (PR)
Telephone: +39 0524 96136
Str. Palazzo Due Torri – 43016 Polesine Zibello (PR)
Telefono: +39 0524 936539
E-mail: info@acpallavicina.com
Website: www.acpallavicina.com
EEC Stamp: IT 1819 L CE
“Antica Corte Pallavicina’ is the brand that identifies our homemade production of cured meats. We are associate members of the Consorzio for the Protection of Culatello di Zibello. for which we have been striving hard. Today we can proudly say that we have contributed to maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the characteristics of the king of cured meats.
We have been producing cured meats for more than 150 years now! Our great-grandfather Carlo, the trusted butcher of Maestro Giuseppe Verdi, was the first! It was him who produced the salami and culatelli so much mentioned in the letters that the Maestro Verdi used to write to his friends ‘my best companions are salami, culatelli, spalle cotte and my wine’.
These jewels were only for the few! Only those who were already familiar with Culatello and knew how to appreciate that unique flavour that in the Bassa (Lower Po Valley) is defined by the elders as ‘fragrance’ or ‘tobacco, honeyed’. We have never stopped producing these Culatelli, but only for us and a few friends, as it is too difficult to make people understand why there are so many white dots, and to explain this intense, savoury flavour!
But now times seem to have changed, and increasingly more people understand Culatello!
Gold used to be one of the most precious things that farmers owned in just a few pieces: a necklace, a pair of earrings; but the other gold they treasured was in the cellar, guarded on sight, brushed and revered no less than the other, the Culatello!!! These Culatelli now have the brand of the Consorzio of Culatello di Zibello and enclose the knowledge of a family that has been producing them since the days of the Master!