A project by TO YOU S.r.l. Benefit Corporation
An atlas built from responsibility.
italian taste map. is built on a conviction: Italy's protected designations of origin are an extraordinary heritage that deserves a representation worthy of them. Not a commercial catalogue. Not an algorithm-powered recommendation engine. A documentary atlas, built on the same sources that institutions use to certify the designations themselves.
Who we are
TOYOU is a benefit corporation— its articles of association include, alongside profit, explicit public-benefit objectives. italian taste map. is one of them: a long-term commitment to the systematic, transparent and up-to-date mapping of Italy’s certified productive heritage.
We are not a certification body or a protection consortium. We are a team that reads disciplinari, downloads public registries, traces production zones on ISTAT municipal boundaries, and builds a portal that makes accessible what institutions make available — often in formats that discourage anyone who isn’t a sector expert.
“We work hard, striving to do our best, aware that everything can be improved.”
How we work
Every piece of data on this portal comes from a single category of source: the primary one. No blog posts, no third-party aggregated datasets, no AI-generated hypotheses presented as fact.
- Designations
- From eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, and from measures published in the Italian Official Gazette.
- Production zones
- From official disciplinari: we read every document and build the list of municipalities from the legal text, not from cartographic approximations.
- Producers
- From the member lists published directly by the protection consortia — the only bodies legally authorised to certify membership in a designation.
Where we stand — and where we don't
Coverage is not complete, and we say so clearly. Of 914 production zones catalogued, 870 have been traced on real polygons. The remaining 44 have no published legal document precise enough to allow delimitation: we show them regardless, but without the geographic layer.
Similarly, producer coverage is not uniform. Better-organised consortia publish updated lists regularly; others rarely do. Where the source is ambiguous or incomplete, we say so explicitly on the record page. We do not invent precision we don’t have.
870/914
zones traced on real boundaries
>13,000
producers from official consortium lists
0
unverifiable third-party sources
Report an error
We know this work can be improved. We are certain of it. If you find an incorrect data point, a mis-delimited zone, a producer who shouldn’t be in the list, or one who is missing, please report it. Every record page has a reporting function: one click is enough.
Reports are verified against the primary source and, if confirmed, updated. Our goal is not declared perfection but pursued perfection — methodically, one record at a time.