Slow Food Presidium 
Borgo delle Mele was born almost by chance in Costabeorchia, a small, almost forgotten village nestled in the Val d’Arzino, a pristine valley overlooking the Tagliamento river in the heart of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Matilde was born in 2008, and the first apple tree was planted with her.
Almost thirty, today, the kilometers between one orchard and another, necessary to create apple orchards of native varieties whose quality can be seen from the plant itself. Thanks to these varieties certified by 20 years of university studies, the Borgo delle Mele company can select the apples to be used based on the aroma of the final product, in order to respect the single favor and obtain something with its own personal taste, a balance that needs to be adjusted every time, because the raw material it is each time slightly different in flavor and yield.
Borgo delle Mele products are aimed at an attentive and aware public of what they consume, who prefers genuine and traditional things, which have a great propensity for the natural.
The secret lies in the use of genuine and top quality products, respecting the seasonality of the fruits, strictly hand-working procedures, respecting the natural times of fruits and vegetables, in non-mechanical procedures that would alter the taste.
The wide range of Borgo delle Mele brand products is born from the desire to do, to learn and always innovate. This is how the products based on Ancient Apples of Alto Friuli – Slow Food Presidium since September 2017, Apples, Apples and fruit as well as Onion from Cavasso and Val Cosa – Slow Food Presidium, see the light.
A natural range, of the highest quality, untreated, meticulously cared for, because we are the first users of our own product.
Bright red with golden highlights, Cavasso Nuovo and Val Cosa onions were once known and appreciated in all the surrounding towns and villages. Their cultivation was mostly a task for the women, who also wove the onions into braids called riesti. The women would sell them from carts, walking all over the Pordenone countryside and going as far as the Bassa Friuliana during hard times, when the onions could be traded for some corn.
Abandoned for decades, cultivation was revived a few years ago, and the Presidium wants to protect and encourage production, preserving traditional practices like covering the seedbeds with corn stalks, cutting the top and roots for transplanting and tying the riesti with dried reeds. “palut di palude”
Production area: Cavasso Nuovo and Castelnovo Municipalities, Pordenone Province
Seasonality: The onions are picked in August and once woven into braids they can keep all year.
At the start of the last century, thousands of apple varieties were still being cultivated in Piedmont. Since then, the development of industrial agriculture has made a cruel selection, with the market preferring foreign apple varieties – bigger, prettier and better adapted to modern cultivation techniques. This Presidium is working to save varieties such as Grigia di Torriana, Buras, Runsè, Magnana, Dominici, Carla and Calvilla, all delicious, aromatic and hardy varieties that can have a future, even on today’s market.
Production area: Municipalities of Bibiana, Pinerolo, Cavour, Bricherasio and Osasco, Province of Turin; Municipalities of Verzuolo, Piasco and Caraglio, Province of Cuneo
Seasonality: The harvest takes place, depending on the variety concerned, from the second week of September until the first week of November. During the rest of the year, it can be consumed in a processed form.
Limited Edition
Old Apple Juice is obtained from the cold pressing of fresh Old Apples harvested by hand at the right point of ripeness. We use a mixture of different varieties of Native Old Apples to obtain a juice that preserves all the aroma and the precious organoleptic characteristics of the fresh apple just caught.
SIZE: magnum 1,5l, bottle 0,75l, bar line 0.20 lt
The Cipolla di Cavasso e della Val Cosa, Slow Food Presidium of Friuli Venezia Giulia is an ecotype characterized by a round bulb and crushed at the poles. It has a white color inside and with veiling of the tunics ranging from a redder shade to Cavasso and a more pinkish one in the Val Cosa. Aromatic and endowed with particular sweetness, this onion is suitable to be consumed even raw.
Perfect in appetizers and to accompany roasts, boiled meats and fried fish.
SIZE: 280 gr, 560 gr
Last modified: 26 Sep 2021
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