Boscolo Cegion Pierluigi

In Chioggia, where the Po delta merges into the lagoon, Boscolo Cegion Pierluigi cultivates Radicchio di Chioggia IGP on flat lands reclaimed from the water. The producer follows both seasons of the cultivar, the early and the late, bringing to maturity that spherical, compact head with dark red leaves traversed by white veins, recognizable even before tasting. The denomination encompasses ten municipalities in the province of Venice, a coastal strip where soil salinity and mild climate define the vegetable's character: a clear but not aggressive bitterness, a crispness that resists the bite. It is a radicchio for the everyday table rather than for display, good raw or cooked, whose identity depends less on the hand of the individual grower than on the precision of the place. Cultivating it here means accepting the short times of the early harvest and the wait for the late one, two harvests that punctuate the agricultural year of this strip of land between river and lagoon.

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