100% CARNAROLI PURITY VARIETY EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN COOKING PRODUCED IN PIEDMONT

HOW ACHILLE GRAN RESERVA 1974 WAS BORN

• 100% CERTIFIED CARNAROLI VARIETY
• INNOVATIVE HEAT TREATMENT THAT KEEPS ALL THE PROPERTIES UNALTERED
  ORGANOLEPTIC FEATURES OF CARNAROLI
• PRODUCED IN PIEDMONT
• SLOW RELEASE OF STARCH
• EXCEPTIONAL COOKING PERFORMANCE

THE HISTORY

Our Classic Carnaroli Rice bears the name of an important figure in the history of Carnaroli rice, Achille De Vecchi, an Italian agronomist and breeder, cousin of Ettore De Vecchi,
father of the Carnaroli variety.
Carnaroli rice was in fact born from the cross between two varieties: Vialone and Lencino by the hand of Ettore de Vecchi aided by the geneticist Emiliano Carnaroli (from whom the variety takes its name). This crossing was carried out in 1939 at the Experimental Station of
Vercelli rice farming. However, it was Achille De Vecchi himself, after the war, who continued and perfected the genetic selection of this variety, to the point of establishing its distinctive characteristics.
1974 is a significant date for Carnaroli rice as it is the year
in which the variety was officially registered in the National Register of Rice Varieties in Italy, decreeing its official birth as a variety recognized in its own right.