Aged Arista is a sweet and lean cured meat. It’s produced from a very thin part of boned pork loin, which you usually use to make steaks and roasts.

To produce it we use accurately selected boned pork loin, which is later salted with mixed spices- salt, pepper, garlic and Marsala wine. The complex process of salting is made through the vigorous massage of all ingredients.

Once salted, the loin is put in ageing tanks for about one month. After the first part of maturation, the meat is sprinkled with Marsala wine, tucked in a natural gut and tied with twine to make the loin more compact and to give to it a homogeneous form. After this procedure, the loin is air-dried in a warm place for a while and later hung in aerated rooms for ageing.

The seasoning time, depending on loin’s diameter, can last from 6 to 8 weeks, after this period the product is ready for consumption.

Aged Arista, along with pork loin Carpaccio at Bigoncia, pepper fillet and smoked pork loin, is one of the leanest, flavourful and the most tender pork loin meat, that the Artisan Factory Gombitelli proposes to delight its guests’ palate.

Aged Pork Loin has a nice bright red colour, a delicate and distinctive smell and sweet taste, with a slight taste of aromas and Marsala wine used during the salting. In comparison with its above-listed “brothers”, aged Arista’s taste is more delicate and sweet.

The aged Arista is great in appetizer buffet and classic cold cuts as a starter; it’s very good even as sandwich stuffing. The bread which better matches with this product is potato bread.

Seasoned pork loin, having a little presence of fat, is one of the most indicate cured meats in low calorie diets.

 

 

Ingredients

Pork loin, salt, pepper, garlic, herbs and spices, sugar: dextrose, antioxidant: E301, preservatives: E250-E252.

Produced in a factory where dairy products and gluten-containing ingredients are not used.

It may contain traces of walnuts and pistachios.

Produced and packaged by Salumificio Artigianale Gombitelli di Triglia M&T SNC località Gombitelli, Camaiore, Lucca.

Store in cool place.

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