Pastificio Sorrentino l’Oro di Gragnano: the ‘golden’ Pasta!

Pastificio Sorrentino l’Oro di Gragnano: the ‘golden’ Pasta!
24/06/2017
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L’Oro di Gragnano by Pastificio Sorrentino is a very special pasta which shares with great wine the desiderata, mission, and - above all - quality of the European food excellence certifications.
Oro di Gragnano: certified awesome!
The Oro di Gragnano (Gold of Gragnano) Pasta label is IGP (Indicazione geografica protetta: PGI, Protected Geographical Indication) and DOP (denominazione d’origine protetta: PDO, Protected Designation of Origin) certified. Pastificio Sorrentino is, with Oro di Gragnano, part of the “Gragnano Città della Pasta” Consortium. The Consortium has been founded in 2003 and Pastificio Sorrentino joined it in 2014. Since 2015 the Consortium has been renamed “Consorzio di Tutela della Pasta di Gragnano IGP”The ‘Code’ of Pasta making
According to the Consortium’s syllabus, the certified Pasta has to be made only with durum wheat flour and water from local aquatic groundwatwer. The production process is articulated in:- Kneading (impasto)
- Mixing (gramolatura)
- Bronze drawing (trafilatura al bronzo)
- Desiccation (essiccazione) between 40 and 80°C
- Stabilisation (Stabilizzazione)
- On site packaging (confezionamento in loco)