'Marcella' gift box

Hatbox with an assortment of Biscottificio Mattei, Deseo, Padovani, La Nicchia and Antinori products

• Description

  'Marcella' hatbox offers the complete selection of Biscottificio Antonio Mattei Biscuits, and a rich assortment of other selected products for our Customers.
  
  Prato Biscuits are prepared with 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 Pistacchios and Almonds or Hazelnuts 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), pistacchios and almonds or hazelnuts are added.
  
  The toasted Brioche Slices are still prepared according to the original 1858 recipe made with soft wheat flour, butter, free-range eggs, sugar, fresh yeast and sea salt, but above all without preservatives and without glucose syrup.
  
  The 'Ilaria' Biscuit tin with illustrations by Simone Massoni is the second project for the Mattei Biscuit Factory by the talented Florentine illustrator and contains 125g of Prato Biscuits.
  
  Espresso quality Padovani coffee is an ideal combination of excellent selections of Arabica coffee and one of the best, if not the best, Indian Robusta coffee.
  The extract in the cup shows a very dense and compact hazelnut cream, in the mouth it then immediately expresses its body and sweetness, leaving room for the strong and aromatic taste of its excellent Arabica.
  
  The La Nicchia jam is only prepared when the oranges are in season and have reached the right balance between sweetness and sharpness.
  As you spread this marmalade your knife will stumble on the bits of hand-cut peel. Ideal for breakfast or as a healthy, tasty snack.
  Also delicious in chocolate cakes or tarts. It contains no added coloring, flavoring or pectin.
  
  The Deseo Oil Biscuits with cocoa and pistachios are crunchy. The dough is made with extra virgin olive oil, flour and sugar.
  
  The Locchi workshop produces glass and crystal objects for tables and home decoration.
  Here everything is forged by making use of ancient blowing techniques and finished by careful grinding and engraving processes, rigorously executed by hand.
  
  Muffato della Sala is produced from grape bunches attacked by Botrytis Cinerea picked in early November in order to allow morning mist and fog to assist in the development of “noble rot” on the grapes. This special kind of mould reduces the amount of water in the berries and concentrates the sugar and the aromas, giving Muffato della Sala a harmonious and unmistakable aroma and flavor.
  
  The Santa Cristina Antinori 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.

• 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, these 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 a new flavor with Pistachios and Almonds.
  
  In 2019 an even more delicious new biscuit was made! 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 production of toasted Pan Brioche Slices has been documented since the beginning of the Antonio Mattei biscuit factory in 1858.
  
  Tin packs are traditionally used to better preserve biscuits; The biscuit factory has been offering them since the last century, not only for storing its biscuits, but also as reusable containers.
  
  Since the early 1900s, under the loggias of Piazza del Comune in Prato, in the coffee, tobacco and spices shop, the Padovani family has sold its precious coffee blends.
  
  In 1949 Antonio Bonomo and Girolamo Giglio started their Caper Factory business in Pantelleria de La Nicchia.
  Today, after more than sixty years, the company is the only Pantelleria organisation to be an Agricultural Company, Caper Factory and Artisan Laboratory.
  
  The first of Deseo's goals is to create balanced and tasty biscuits by focusing on the excellence of the ingredients, natural flavors, artisanal processing methods and traditional cooking systems.
  Every year new combinations of flavors are produced, always attentive to the needs of a loyal clientele already widespread in Italy and worldwide.
  
  The origins of Moleria Locchi date back to the end of the 19th century when, in the San Frediano district, the heart of the Florentine Oltrarno, an artisan workshop was founded. It created beautiful glasses requested, at the time, in luxury ships and in large hotels for their extraordinary refinement.
  
  Castello della Sala is located in Umbria, not far from the border with Tuscany, about 18 kilometers from the historic city of Orvieto. The lands of the Castle, an imposing medieval manor, extend for 500 hectares, of which 170 hectares are grape vines, halfway between the river Paglia and the summit of Monte Nibbio.
  
  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 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori became part of the "Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri", the Florentine Winemaker's Guild.

• Sizes
  Diameter

  35 cm

  Height

  31 cm
• Notes

  Weight 272 oz with external shipping packaging.