Apulia, the sunny southern region of Italy, offers the ideal site for the production of the best pasta. Here, thanks to the winning combination of tradition and advanced technology, Pastificio del Colle has achieved a great position among the best artisanal pasta manufacturers in Italy.
Mr. Vito Nettis, the present owner, is Vito Nettis’ nephew, who nearly in the 1920s, carried on different alimentary business from the ice production and soft wheat mill to the bakery and pasta factory.
Past, present and future represent a perfect fusion to get to the excellence for Pastificio del Colle. Both tradition and innovation can fully meet customer’s requests, offering them a large variety of pastas ranging .
Colored pasta has become the Pastificio del Colle’s real novelty and the renowned trademark as well.
The working process of our pasta prefers artisanal techniques, working the dough manually or using bronze dies which make a rough product, suitable to hold all kind of sauces.
We use high quality durum wheat, 100% Italian one and natural colours for different doughs: turmeric is used in order to obtain yellow colour, spinaches for green, beet for violet, paprika for orange, spirulina and apple extract for blue and cuttlefish black ink for black. Raw materials are kneaded into different quantities depending on the shapes desired and worked together with the addition of coloured natural powders. Once finished this process, the dough is pushed in a cochlea (this one is inserted in a cylinder) towards the bronze die which gives the final shape to pasta.
Whereas there’s a long and manual working process for special handmade products.
All shapes are dried slowly for 36/40h at low temperature of max 39°C which allows the product to preserve organoleptic features.
Taste our colored, flavored, traditional white and whole wheat pasta, you’ll definitely feel new!