New harvest 2024

The new harvest 2024 of Piedmont pgi hazelnut has been available since October.

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Like every year, after harvesting in the Scoiattolo Rosso company, the hazelnuts are cleaned of impurities (stones, spoiled hazelnuts, pebbles of earth) and left to dry in the sun in our warehouse.

For this reason we offer the new harvest only starting from the month of October, in order to offer our customers eager and impatient for the new harvest, a product ready to be consumed.

If the hazelnut is not dried well, it could give rise to mold and bacteria which would alter its quality over time, making it difficult to preserve and store throughout the year.

This year, unfortunately, the hazelnut harvest has suffered a heavy decline of around 80%, presumably linked to increasingly warmer winters, in which the plant goes into early flowering, not in harmony with pollen production.

Furthermore, the abundant rains, necessary after 2 years of drought, in the spring from March to June, made the ripening of the fruits difficult.

So as you can see, we had to increase the prices of our products, in order to cover the management costs of the cultivation, which despite the low production remain the same, indeed like everything else they tend to increase linked to the various increases in the prices of materials.

This year too, at Scoiattolo Rosso we are committed to being able to give an excellent product as usual to our customers, which we probably won’t be able to have available all year round.

But as we were taught and the resilient farmer always says with incurable optimism:

“Come on, next year will be better”!