'Egisto' gift box

Hatbox with an assortment of Biscottificio Mattei products and Antinori wines

• Description

  'Alfonso' hatbox offers the complete selection of Biscottificio Antonio Mattei Biscuits: Prato Biscuits (also called 'Cantuccio' or 'Cantuccino' with Almonds) and the subsequent varieties of the Biscuit with Dark Chocolate, Pistacchio and Almonds or the ones with Piedmont Hazelnuts plus a selection of dessert wines.
  Contains a 17.5oz packet of Prato Biscuits, a 8.8 oz packet of Dark Chocolate Biscuits, a 8.8 oz packet of Pistacchio and Almond Biscuits, a 8.8oz packet of IGP Piemonte Hazelnut Biscuits, a 500 ml bottle of Santa Cristina Antinori Vinsanto and a 750 ml bottle of Prunotto Moscato d'Asti.
  
  Prato Biscuits are prepared with 5 simple ingredients: flour, sugar, free-range eggs, almonds and pine nuts, they do not contain preservatives, animal fats or vegetable fats.
  The Dark Chocolate biscuits and the ones with Hazelunts are made with the same ingredients as the Prato biscuits (flour, sugar, free-range eggs) but instead of almonds and pine nuts, fine dark chocolate (85 % cocoa), pistacchio and almonds or hazelunts are added.
  
  The Antinori Santa Cristina Vinsanto is intense yellow with amber highlights, the wine shows aromas of toasted hazelnuts, honey, and apricots along with light notes of citrus fruit.
  Full-bodied on the palate with honeyed and nutty flavors, it is a long and supple wine with an intense finish of chestnut flour and herbs.
  
  The Prunotto Moscati d'Asti is pale yellow color.
  On the nose the aroma binds with notes of acacia honey and hawthorn.
  In the mouth: full, dense, vigorous and elegant, with a final balanced, fresh and pleasant.

• History

  Since 1858 Prato Biscuits have been baked daily and hand-packed one by one, in the classic Blu Mattei bag.
  
  The Dark Chocolate Biscuits came out of our oven for the first time in 2013, they are also hand-packed one by one, originally in a red bag but since 2019 in the Blu Mattei bag with a Red label.
  
  In 2017 the Mattei family added the new Pistachios and Almonds flavor.
  
  In 2019 a new, even more delicious biscuit was created! It is the variety with the prestigious Piedmont IGP Hazelnuts: a trilobate hazelnut, with a particular weight and toasting flavor, carefully selected for the traditional dough of our Biscuits.
  
  The first vintage of Santa Cristina Vinsanto was produced in 1946 by Marquis Niccolò Antinori.
  The Antinori family has been dedicated to wine production for more than six hundred years: since 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori became part of the "Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri", the Florentine Winemaker's Guild.
  
  In 1904, in the council chamber of the municipality of Serralunga, in the presence of the Notary Giacomo Oddero and the young witness Alfredo Prunotto, the Cantina Sociale "Ai Vini delle Langhe" was founded.
  In 1989, the Antinori family began its collaboration with the Prunotto company, initially dealing with distribution only. In 1994, with the withdrawal of the Colla brothers, the Antinori family started production too, maintaining the excellent quality level strongly desired by Alfredo Prunotto.

• Sizes
  Diameter

  35 cm

  Height

  21 cm
• Notes

  Weight 204.5 oz with external shipping packaging.