the melotti family
OUR STORY began...
Starting from two hectares of rice paddies and there is still a long road ahead!
Over the 1980s, the economic income of small farms was becoming less and less sufficient due to the low value of cereals and Giuseppe Melotti had to deal with the problem of guaranteeing a future for his children. In the spring of 1986, Giuseppe Melotti sowed one hectare and a half of rice paddies by hand. From the very beginning, he began to cultivate and sell the best Italian rice varieties, such as Vialone Nano Veronese Rice and Carnaroli Rice, on his own behalf. That was a forward-looking choice that anticipated the widespread concept of the Short Supply Chain.
Today the Melotti Farm is run with passion by the founder Giuseppe and his wife Rosa, known as “Rosetta”, along with their sons Luca and Gianmaria and their daughter Francesca. Thanks to the creativity of Melotti family and following the delicious Mamma Rosetta’s recipes, Rice-based specialities and Melotti Rice Flour were, for the first time, produced. Untile today there are more than 60 products.
Telling its story and its work becomes an important activity for the farm. Therefore Melotti family decided to start its own Educational Farm. A real 360° journey in the world of rice, organised for classes and groups. Today, a lot of groups and classes visit the Melotti Educational Farm.
Thanks to Mamma Rosetta’s culinary experience, in 2002 Risotteria Melotti was opened in the heart of Isola della Scala and in 2013 another dream came true for the family: to inaugurate a Risotteria Melotti in New York. These traditional and unique restaurants offer a completely rice-based cuisine and a wide selection of risotti and wines from Verona and Veneto. Four years after, Riso Melotti succeeded in opening in the Italian capital: in fact in February 2017, Risotteria Melotti was inaugurated in Rome, in the historical centre, near Piazza Navona. These restaurants are recognisable among many others and are reaching new cities. The latest jewel of Melotti family, opened in 2021 in Florence, just a short stroll the Cathedral!
Riso Melotti can also be found in small and prestigious delicatessens that provide refined and high-quality products, as well as it is used by chefs in renowned restaurants in Italy and abroad.
100% Melotti Rice
Short Food Supply Chain to guarantee quality!
The decision to produce and process only our own rice, in accordance with high-quality criteria, was a courageous choice for Melotti family, which has been pursued and strengthened over the years.
The care and the attention paid to the choice and the cultivation of their best lands are the same paid to the rice processing. Indeed it does not undergo any chemical intervention or handling, maintaining, in this way, its properties intact and unchanged up to the table of food lovers.
Our daily commitment is to pay great attention to every step of our work. The Traceability of the product and the guarantee of its origin are essential factors for Melotti family.
” THE BEST EARS OF RICE GROW
ON CAREFULLY TENDED GROUND”
The Melotti family has always taken care of the land on which it sows its rice. It is from the preparation of this land, ploughed, levelled and fertilised with care that the good cultivation of Vialone Nano Veronese and Carnaroli Rice begins.
An indispensable job that is repeated every year…
” THE BEST EARS OF RICE GROW
ON CAREFULLY WORKED FIELDS”
Melotti family has always been taking care of the land on which it sows its rice. A proper cultivation of Vialone Nano Rice and Carnaroli Rice starts with the preparation of the fields, which are ploughed, flattened and fertilised.
A necessary job that is repeated every year…
Ancient methods handed down over the years...
Delicate craftsmanship
Particular attention is also paid to the processing of our rice, a system which has adapted to new technologies over the years but which maintains the artisan methods used since ancient times.
The grain is cleaned of its outer husk, ‘the Chaff’, by passing through rubber rollers that delicately remove the outer layers and is further whitened using mechanical processes that do not alter the characteristics of the product. The different stages of processing make it possible to obtain rice rich in fibre, in whole grain processing and more refined rice such as semi-processed or milled.
The colour, thanks to this tenuous processing, will always remain slightly ivory and not white like the colour of classic industrial rice.
We process and package our rice a little at a time, so that it arrives as freshly husked as possible – this is the name given to the processing of rice – on your table.
Sustainable energy and Recyclable packaging
100% sustainable production chain
Since 2021, the Melotti Giuseppe Agricultural Company has been consuming agricultural energy at km 0, making its production chain 100% sustainable. By joining the 0 km agricultural energy project and consuming the same 100% renewable, traceable and certified EKOenergy energy produced by the Coldiretti Vento Members, it contributes every year to avoiding the emission of more than 56 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, actively helping the environment and bringing many other people closer to natural energy consumption by example.
118: THE EQUIVALENT BARRELS OF OIL AVOIDED EVERY YEAR
Particular attention is paid to product preservation when choosing the packaging. The rice preserves perfectly thanks to the presence of a filter that prevents moisture from coming into contact with it. Instead of vacuum packaging, which takes away the freshness and aroma of the product, we prefer artisanal packaging with a modified atmosphere (map).
MELOTTI FAMILY RICE PACKAGING is also RECYCLABLE!
For us, it is of utmost importance to use sustainable packaging without compromising the protection of our product. We choose our materials carefully so that they can be recycled without harming the planet.
Ancient methods handed down over the years...
A thorough craftsmanship
Particular attention is also paid to the processing of our rice, a system which has adapted to new technologies over the years but which maintains the artisan methods used since ancient times.
The grain is cleaned of its outer husk, ‘the Chaff’, by passing through rubber rollers that delicately remove the outer layers and is further whitened using mechanical processes that do not alter the characteristics of the product. The different stages of processing make it possible to obtain rice rich in fibre, in whole grain processing and more refined rice such as semi-processed or milled.
The colour, thanks to this tenuous processing, will always remain slightly ivory and not white like the colour of classic industrial rice.
We process and package our rice a little at a time, so that it arrives as freshly husked as possible – this is the name given to the processing of rice – on your table.
Sustainable energy and Recyclable packaging
100% sustainable production chain
118: THE EQUIVALENT BARRELS OF OIL AVOIDED EVERY YEAR
Particular attention is paid to product preservation when choosing the packaging. The rice preserves perfectly thanks to the presence of a filter that prevents moisture from coming into contact with it. Instead of vacuum packaging, which takes away the freshness and aroma of the product, we prefer artisanal packaging with a modified atmosphere (map).
MELOTTI FAMILY RICE PACKAGING is also RECYCLABLE!
For us, it is of utmost importance to use sustainable packaging without compromising the protection of our product. We choose our materials carefully so that they can be recycled without harming the planet.
