'Egisto' gift box

Hatbox with Biscottificio Mattei products assortment and Antinori wines

• Description

  'Alfonso' hatbox offers the complete selection of Biscottificio Antonio Mattei Biscuits: the Biscotto di Prato (also called 'Cantuccio' or 'Cantuccino' with Almonds) and the subsequent versions of the Biscuit with Dark Chocolate, Pistacchio and Almonds and Biscuit with Piedmont Hazelnuts, and a dessert wine selection.
  Contains a packet of 17.5 oz Prato Biscuits, one of 8.8 oz, Dark Chocolate Biscuits, Pistacchio and Almonds and Hazelnuts IGP Piemonte Biscuits of 8.8 oz., a 500 ml Santa Cristina Antinori vin santo bottle, and a 750 ml Moscato d'Asti Prunotto bottle.
  
  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.
  Dark Chocolate biscuits and the ones with Hazelunts are made with the same dough of the Prato biscuits (flour, sugar, free-range eggs), and instead of almonds and pine nuts, fine dark chocolate (85 % cocoa) is added, pistacchio and almonds or hazelunts.
  
  The Antinori santa Cristina vin santo 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.
  At 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 the Prato Biscuits have been baked daily and hand-packed one by one, in the classic Blu Mattei bag.
  
  The Dark Chocolate Biscuits come out of our oven for the first time in 2013, these are also hand-packed one by one, originally in the red bag, and from 2019 in the Blu Mattei bag with Red label.
  
  In 2017 the Mattei family is added the new taste to Pistachios and Almonds.
  
  In 2019 a new biscuit was born, even more delicious! It is the variant 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 was produced in 1946 by Marquis Niccolò Antinori.
  The Antinori family has been dedicated to wine production for more than six hundred years: since, in 1385, Giovanni di Piero Antinori became part of the Florentine Art of the Vinattieri.
  
  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 and then, in 1994, with the withdrawal of the Colla brothers, also directly from production, 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.