Cinta Senese Guanciale Le Fontanelle

Name: Cinta Senese Guanciale Le Fontanelle
SKU: 18148
Availability: InStock

€18.50 – €37.00

Guanciale means pork cheek, in this case The Guanciale comes from a very rare and ancient breed of pig, the Sienese china.
Bred only around Siena, the Sienese Cinta Senese was in danger of extinction until a few years ago.

Important: Cured meats and cold cuts are handmade products, and as such has a different weight from cut to cut.
Passione Toscana, like the producers, undertakes to respect the indicated weight, but the weight can be slightly higher or lower than the declared one.

Artikelnummer: n.a. Kategorien: Aufschnitt und Wurstwaren, Typisch toskanisches Essen

Cinta Senese Guanciale Le Fontanelle

Consisting of the fleshy part of the pig’s cheek, after a „massage“ with a mixture of salt, pepper, vinegar and crushed garlic, it is kept for 15 days in coarse salt, then cleaned, salted again and seasoned with ground black pepper. When cut, it is presented with strips of lean pink with fat.

About the Producer, Le Fontanelle:

Le Fontanelle farm, located in the surroundings of Chianciano Terme, specializes in the “wild” breeding of Cinta Senese pigs.

Their Cinta Senese cured meats are therefore obtained from animals raised in the wild.

Grazing in the woods and arable land is integrated into the measure

appropriate with flour of vegetable origin, following the ancient Tuscan traditions.

The cured meats they produce are: Shoulder, Sausage, Salami, Imbrogliona, Pancetta, Guanciale, Capocollo, Loin, Lard, Ham and Gran Riserva Ham.

All these meats come from the Cinta Senese that they breed, for Le Fontanelle the quality of the product is in fact fundamental and that it is 100% Cinta Senese, in order to educate the new generations to the flavors and smells of this ancient breed, which risked to become extinct during the past century.