Quality products from South Tyrol
South Tyrol’s quality food products are closely connected with the region’s rural culture and traditions. They are produced according to handed-down methods and as such they are South Tyrol’s healthy, unmistakable culinary ambassadors.
Apple country South Tyrol
Apples
8,000 South Tyrolean fruit farms, for the most part small and family-run, tend their apple trees with loving care to ensure the 300 sunny days per year are exploited to the full, to produce the crisp aromatic apples with firm, tangy, juicy pulp for which the region is so famous. With over a dozen varieties, consumers are spoilt for choice. more...
Top recipes with apples
Typical taste
Speck
Speck (raw ham) is traditionally poor man’s fare, which evolved over centuries from the necessity to preserve pork. It is now made from boned and cured choice hams, and has become a sought-after delicacy. With its unmistakable aroma and flavour, Speck is less salty and sweet compared to the Mediterranean raw hams, and more aromatic and delicate than strongly-smoked raw ham from the northern Alps. more...
Top recipes with speck
A cuvée of landscape and passion
Did you know...
that South Tyrol is the oldest winegrowing area in German-speaking Europe? Tiny in size, its international profile dwarfs many of the world’s large regions.
Viticulture zone & mapsWhite gold
Dairy products
Fresh milk from South Tyrol’s valleys, from even the highest Alpine dairy farms at almost 2,000 metres altitude, is delivered to the region’s dairies, where it is processed fresh daily. South Tyrol’s mountain farmers produce guaranteed GMO free products. more...
Tip
Why is milk so healthy? Milk’s myriad nutrients make it one of the most salubrious foodstuffs of all, abounding with minerals, carbohydrates and vitamins.
South Tyrol milk in figuresGoodness steeped in tradition
Bread and bakery products
Worldwide, bread is synonymous with food and the development of civilisation. Few regions can boast such an array of bread varieties compared with South Tyrol, where Alpine and Mediterranean traditions merge. more...
Did you know...
that the famous "Vinschgerl" rye bread rolls originate from Vinschgau in South Tyrol?
Recipe "Vinschger Paarl"Crystal clear quality
Did you know...
that grappa should not be savored ice-cold, given that the aromas are only fully released at 15°C?
Tipps zum Genuss von GrappaA draught of nature
Applejuice
It’s hardly surprising that South Tyrol produces delicious, naturally opaque apple juice, given
that it is Europe’s largest self-contained apple-growing area. South Tyrol produces 360,000 litres of apple juice annually.
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Quality
Apple juice with the "South Tyrol Seal of Quality" is produced only with South Tyrolean apples from integrated or organic farming.
Nature’s bounty
Medicinal & culinary herbs
South Tyrol's mountain landscape provides the perfect climatic conditions for the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic herbs. Flowers and herbs have been collected in South Tyrol since time immemorial, either in the Great Outdoors or grown in farmhouse kitchen gardens, dried and used as medicinal herbs in popular remedies. more...
Producers
In South Tyrol, medicinal plants and herbs are grown over a total area of nearly 10 acres. The products of 10 growers have been awarded the "South Tyrol Seal of Quality".
Fresh, crisp, delicious
Vegetables
Commercial production of vegetables in South Tyrol is in the hands of family-run farms. Their products are cultivated in the open air at altitudes ranging from 500 and 1,600 metres above sea level and harvested between May and October. more...
Top recipes with vegetables
Pure nature
Honey
South Tyrolean honey sold bearing the quality logo is completely natural and rich in active ingredients. 2,400 bee colonies or 600,000 honey bees collect the precious food source and around 120 beekeepers ensure that South Tyrolean honey bearing the quality seal reaches your breakfast table. It is characterised by an impressive diversity of flavours reflecting the variety of plants and blossoms found on South Tyrol's Alpine meadows, pastures and woods at all elevations.
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Did you know...
in order to produce a kilo of honey the bees visit five million flowers and leave the hive 60,000 times?
Alpine air turns berries red
Berry fruits
Strawberries, raspberries and blackcurrants ripen in South Tyrol from June to September. They are all grown in the open air at altitudes ranging from 800 m and 1,600 m. The cool growing areas with 300 sunny days per year and their dry climate yield especially aromatic hand-picked fruit. more...
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