Zafferano Lessinia

Zafferano Lessinia is a young company born out of love for the Lessinia territory and the desire to enhance it with excellent production. Their project is to cultivate and produce high quality saffron, while respecting the environment and the territory. The idea came to Chiara Castagna, the founder of this reality, observing the many beautiful crocuses that spontaneously color the pastures on the Lessini Mountains plateau, in the province of Verona, with white and lilac in spring. After learning and taking an example from other Italian producers of Crocus sativus (the flower used to produce saffron), Chiara selected the best national suppliers and experimented with different cultivation techniques to optimize the needs of this spice with the peculiarities of the mountain territory of Lessinia.

Zafferano Lessinia cultivates and processes saffron by hand, without the use of additives or other chemicals, to respect the product and preserve all the organoleptic characteristics that make it a unique and precious spice. To protect and respect hygiene and health qualities, Chiara has transformed a part of the old family home where her grandfather managed a tavern, turning it into a food laboratory to process saffron (according to current HACCP regulations

).

TOP QUALITY DRIED AND UNROASTED MOUNTAIN SAFFRON

The collection of Crocus sativus flowers, shortly after dawn, and the brushing take place exclusively by hand, to ensure maximum purity. Chiara Castagna has chosen not to roast the saffron stigmas, but to dry them at a temperature of 40°C, to

keep all their original aroma.