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Primitivizia - Mugolio - Pinecone Bud Syrup - 100 g
Regular price $23.99 USDRegular price
About Primitivizia
- Based in
- Spiazzo, Trentino, Italy
- Known for
- wild mountain herb preserves and Mugolio syrup
Giovanni Collini and Eleonora Cunaccia run Primitivizia from Spiazzo, a village in Trentino's Val Rendena. They gather wild herbs and plants by hand through the seasons, from high mountain ground down to stream banks, slopes and woods.
After picking, everything is washed in spring water and the best plants are sorted out. Cooking, sterilizing and jarring are all done by hand in the Spiazzo workshop.
Primitivizia questions
How are wild mountain plants preserved?
Wild plants spoil quickly once picked, so they are preserved by cooking. At Primitivizia everything is washed in spring water and sorted, then cooked, sterilized and jarred by hand in the Spiazzo workshop. Sterilizing means heating the sealed jars to kill anything that would spoil the food. Alpine syrups follow an older method: young buds of the mugo pine, a small pine of the high Alps, are set in the sun, and the syrup they release is cooked down with sugar.
Are Primitivizia's plants wild?
Yes. Primitivizia makes its products from erbe spontanee di montagna, Italian for mountain plants that grow on their own rather than being farmed. Giovanni Collini and Eleonora Cunaccia pick them by hand through the seasons around Val Rendena, from high mountain ground down to stream banks, slopes and woods, so what goes into the jars follows what each season brings.
