AGRIFOOD

Activity description

The ANTICA TORRONERIA PIEMONTESE COMPANY belongs to a prolific and fascinating territory, the Langhe. Giuseppe Sebaste established the Company in 1885. Until that moment nougat in Italy was produced only with expensive almonds growing in Southern Italy. As Giuseppe Sebaste, father of ten children, could not afford to buy them, he decided to use splendid hazelnuts of our beautiful hills. In this way our famous hazelnut nougat was born.

Today at the ANTICA TORRONERIA PIEMONTESE we like to describe ourselves as evolved craftsmen, working in the respect of tradition and at the same time watching to the future. Starting from strictly selected ingredients, we process them according to time they need to be transformed and in order to obtain the taste of exclusive products. We apply a simple but very important concept: haste is enemy of quality. Nougat’s ingredients have to be added in a specific order: while with the "bain marie" method the nougat craftsmen cook slowly a mixture of glucose, sugar and albumen or gelatin, the hazelnuts have to be correctly roasted; only after they are put together. The same care and philosophy is used in preparing Sweet Truffles: the mixture of cocoa paste, hazelnuts in pieces and hazelnuts paste has to rest for an entire night before it can continue to be processed.

A lot of our craftsmen have an over twenty-years old experience. The skills of our expert laboratory technicians could never be replaced. We create, design and patent our machinery used in the production, just for conceiving work like a big confectionery laboratory. Specialties so precious need an exclusive packaging: in the ANTICA TORRONERIA PIEMONTESE we take care of every single detail, choosing elegant materials for the wrapping and making by hand our packages.

The result is the few quantities produced and the unique quality of products addressed to an exclusive customer that can find our products only in specialized and prestigious dealer. Starting from the story of a family with 10 children, our reality today is represented by a factory certified according to the standards BRS and IFS. Our customers are specialist retailers, gourmet shops, wine shops. We are prepared to offer a well-groomed service and customized for our Italian clients and our distributors all over the world.

Today we have reached the fifth generation working in the family business: the passion continues…

Food & Beverage

Confectionary & Spreads / Chocolate & pralines / Torrone, candies  and toffees / Chocolate, nut, nougat spreads
Distribution channel / Gourmet Shop / Retailer